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The current VMA merge mechanism contains a number of confusing mechanisms around removal of VMAs on merge and the shrinking of the VMA adjacent to vma->target in the case of merges which result in a partial merge with that adjacent VMA. Since we now have a STABLE set of VMAs - prev, middle, next - we are now able to have the caller of commit_merge() explicitly tell us which VMAs need deleting, using newly introduced internal VMA merge flags. Doing so allows us to embed this state within the VMG and remove the confusing remove, remove2 parameters from commit_merge(). We additionally are able to eliminate the highly confusing and misleading 'expanded' parameter - a parameter that in reality refers to whether or not the return VMA is the target one or the one immediately adjacent. We can infer which is the case from whether or not the adj_start parameter is negative. This also allows us to simplify further logic around iterator configuration and VMA iterator stores. Doing so means we can also eliminate the adjust parameter, as we are able to infer which VMA ought to be adjusted from adj_start - a positive value implies we adjust the start of 'middle', a negative one implies we adjust the start of 'next'. We are then able to have commit_merge() explicitly return the target VMA, or NULL on inability to pre-allocate memory. Errors were previously filtered so behaviour does not change. We additionally move from the slightly odd use of a bitwise-flag enum vmg->merge_flags field to vmg bitfields. This patch has no change in functional behaviour. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7bf2ed24af68aac18672b7acebbd9102f48c5b03.1738326519.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.