Since we link a vma to the leaf of a rb_tree, *next* must be a parent of
vma if *next* is not NULL. This means if we update *next* gap first, it
will be re-update again if vma's gap is bigger.

For example, we have a vma tree like this:

                a
                [0x9000, 0x10000]
            /            \
        b                 c
        [0x8000, 0x9000]  [0x10000, 0x11000]

The gap for each node is:

  a's gap = 0x8000
  b's gap = 0x8000
  c's gap = 0x0

Now we want to insert d [0x6000, 0x7000], then the tree look like this:

                a
                [0x9000, 0x10000]
            /            \
        b                 c
        [0x8000, 0x9000]  [0x10000, 0x11000]
     /
    d
    [0x6000, 0x7000]

b is the *next* of d. If we update b's gap first, it would be 0x1000 and
propagate to a. And then when update d's gap, which is 0x6000 and
propagate through b to a again.

If we update d's gap first, the un-consistent gap 0x1000 will not be
propagated.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.y...@linux.intel.com>
---
 mm/mmap.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index aa66753b175e..672ad7dc6b3c 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -587,12 +587,6 @@ static unsigned long count_vma_pages_range(struct 
mm_struct *mm,
 void __vma_link_rb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                struct rb_node **rb_link, struct rb_node *rb_parent)
 {
-       /* Update tracking information for the gap following the new vma. */
-       if (vma->vm_next)
-               vma_gap_update(vma->vm_next);
-       else
-               mm->highest_vm_end = vm_end_gap(vma);
-
        /*
         * vma->vm_prev wasn't known when we followed the rbtree to find the
         * correct insertion point for that vma. As a result, we could not
@@ -605,6 +599,13 @@ void __vma_link_rb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct 
vm_area_struct *vma,
        rb_link_node(&vma->vm_rb, rb_parent, rb_link);
        vma->rb_subtree_gap = 0;
        vma_gap_update(vma);
+
+       /* Update tracking information for the gap following the new vma. */
+       if (vma->vm_next)
+               vma_gap_update(vma->vm_next);
+       else
+               mm->highest_vm_end = vm_end_gap(vma);
+
        vma_rb_insert(vma, &mm->mm_rb);
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1

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