From 66383800df9cbdbf3b0c34d5a51bf35bcdb72fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 22:17:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix madvise WILLNEED performance problem
The calculation of the end page index was incorrect, leading to a
regression of 70% when running stress-ng.
With this fix, we instead see a performance improvement of 3%.
Fixes: e6e88712e43b ("mm: optimise madvise WILLNEED")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201109134851.29692-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 7e773f949ef9f..a8d8d48a57fe9 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static void force_shm_swapin_readahead(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct address_space *mapping)
{
XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, linear_page_index(vma, start));
- pgoff_t end_index = end / PAGE_SIZE;
+ pgoff_t end_index = linear_page_index(vma, end + PAGE_SIZE - 1);
struct page *page;
rcu_read_lock();
--
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