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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh3tjw+MNxe6zuixtD=D8bXYHWs9h3Y++r5ObTcSvz6+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 19 May 2023 21:01:07 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Kirill A Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>,
        "Liam R. Howlett" <liam.howlett@...cle.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/mremap: Optimize the start addresses in move_page_tables()

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 8:57 PM Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org> wrote:
>
> I also realize that I don't really need to check whether the masked
> source address falls under a VMA neighboring to that of the source's.

I don't think that's true.

You can't start randomly moving other source vma's that may have other contents.

               Linus

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