On riscv, mmap currently returns an address from the largest address space that can fit entirely inside of the hint address. This makes it such that the hint address is almost never returned. This patch raises the mappable area up to and including the hint address. This allows mmap to often return the hint address, which allows a performance improvement over searching for a valid address as well as making the behavior more similar to other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins charlie@rivosinc.com --- Charlie Jenkins (3): riscv: mm: Use hint address in mmap if available selftests: riscv: Generalize mm selftests docs: riscv: Define behavior of mmap
Documentation/arch/riscv/vm-layout.rst | 16 ++-- arch/riscv/include/asm/processor.h | 21 ++---- tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/mmap_bottomup.c | 20 +---- tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/mmap_default.c | 20 +---- tools/testing/selftests/riscv/mm/mmap_test.h | 93 +++++++++++++----------- 5 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 556e2d17cae620d549c5474b1ece053430cd50bc change-id: 20240119-use_mmap_hint_address-f9f4b1b6f5f1