Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86,mm/pat: Use generic interval trees

[Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>]

I think vma_interval_tree is a bit of a mixed bag, but mostly leans
towards using half closed intervals.

Right now vma_last_pgoff() has to do -1 because of the interval tree
using closed intervals. Similarly, rmap_walk_file(), which I consider
to be the main user of the vma_interval_tree, also has to do -1 when
computing pgoff_end because of the interval tree closed intervals. So,
I think overall vma_interval_tree would also more naturally use
half-open intervals.

But, that's not a 100% thing for vma_interval_tree, as it also has
uses that do stabbing queries (in arch specific code, in hugetlb
cases, and in dax code).

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:17 AM Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> >>As I had commented some time ago, I wish the interval trees used [start,end)
> >>intervals instead of [start,last] - it would be a better fit for basically
> >>all of the current interval tree users.
>
> So the vma_interval_tree (which is a pretty important user) tends to break this
> pattern, as most lookups are [a,a]. We would have to update most of the
> vma_interval_tree_foreach calls, for example, to now do [a,a+1[ such that we
> don't break things. Some cases for the anon_vma_tree as well (ie memory-failure).
>
> I'm not sure anymore it's worth going down this path as we end up exchanging one
> hack for another (and the vma_interval_tree is a pretty big user); but I'm sure
> you're aware of this and thus disagree.
>
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr



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Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.