linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2] rmap: make anon_vma_prepare link in all the anon

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Date:	Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:31:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	sgunderson@...foot.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] rmap: make anon_vma_prepare link in all the anon_vmas
 of a mergeable VMA

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 
> Did you have something in mind that I missed?

Mostly that the corner cases will never matter, and I'd prefer to keep the 
code simpler than to care deeply.

For example, the only case you'd see vm_ops->close() is for special device 
mappings. It's true that they cannot have their vma's merged, but it's 
also true that they (a) will seldom have anon_vma's anyway and (b) would 
never get mapped very many times so that anon_vma merging would be an 
issue.

In other words, it's a "don't care" situation, where to keep the code 
simpler we just document that we don't care.

		Linus
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