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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 19:06:48 -0700 From: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com> To: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com> Cc: x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>, Vedvyas Shanbhogue <vedvyas.shanbhogue@...el.com>, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>, Weijiang Yang <weijiang.yang@...el.com>, Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@...el.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 19/26] mm: Re-introduce do_mmap_pgoff() On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 7:57 AM Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com> wrote: > > There was no more caller passing vm_flags to do_mmap(), and vm_flags was > removed from the function's input by: > > commit 45e55300f114 ("mm: remove unnecessary wrapper function do_mmap_pgoff()"). > > There is a new user now. Shadow stack allocation passes VM_SHSTK to > do_mmap(). Re-introduce the vm_flags and do_mmap_pgoff(). I would prefer to change the callers to pass the additional 0 argument instead of bringing the wrapper function back, but if we're going to bring it back then we should fix the naming (both functions take a pgoff argument, so the previous name do_mmap_pgoff() was just plain confusing). Peter
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