linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] mm: isolate mmap internal logic to mm/vma.c

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Message-ID: <10c78981-998c-41a9-86d0-6282bd1b1772@suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:23:14 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, Jann Horn
 <jannh@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] mm: isolate mmap internal logic to mm/vma.c

On 10/23/24 22:38, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> In previous commits we effected improvements to the mmap() logic in
> mmap_region() and its newly introduced internal implementation function
> __mmap_region().
> 
> However as these changes are intended to be backported, we kept the delta
> as small as is possible and made as few changes as possible to the newly
> introduced mm/vma.* files.
> 
> Take the opportunity to move this logic to mm/vma.c which not only isolates
> it, but also makes it available for later userland testing which can help
> us catch such logic errors far earlier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>

With help of git's colorMoved:

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>