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Message-ID: <f939a796-b04f-4e44-be16-be243c6a250e@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:30:43 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 04/42] mm: Re-introduce vm_flags to do_mmap()

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 05:10:30PM -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> From: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
> 
> 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_SHADOW_STACK to
> do_mmap().  Thus, re-introduce vm_flags to do_mmap().

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

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