tree 8172ec6d41fcdbd0af75ce75135f793b52ce5125
parent 488dac0c9237647e9b8f788b6a342595bfa40bda
author Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> 1606025842 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1606070902 -0800

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>