linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/mlock: Use vma_lookup() instead of find

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Message-ID: <YjCJG2m84NSFrsHr@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:39:55 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hughd@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mlock: Use vma_lookup() instead of find_vma()

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 08:24:04PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> On 2022/3/15 0:16, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:17:28PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> >> Using vma_lookup() verifies the start is contained in the found vma. This
> >> results in easier to read the code.
> > 
> > This conflicts with the maple tree.
> 
> IIUC, maple tree is the implementation detail of the vma and this patch
> should not be conflict with it. But there might be some trival conflict.
> Am I supposed to delay this patch until the maple tree's work is done?

This function is rewritten as part of the maple tree patchset.
There's no point in merging it now, or later.