mm: introduce and use linear_page_delta()

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It's often useful to obtain the number of pages a given address lies at
within a VMA.

Add linear_page_delta() to determine this and update linear_page_index() to
make use of it.

Add comments to describe both linear_page_delta() and linear_page_index().

We refer the reader to the comment for vma_start_pgoff() so we don't
duplicate information about the meaning of a VMA's page offset, which is
also less likely to result in bitrot.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710-b4-pre-scalable-cow-v2-17-2a5aa403d977@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Lorenzo Stoakes 2026-07-10 21:16:58 +01:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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