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Vlastimil Babka 50dac01113 mm/mmap/vma_merge: use only primary pointers for preparing merge 
Patch series "cleanup vma_merge() and improve mergeability tests".

My initial goal here was to try making the check for vm_ops->close in
is_mergeable_vma() only be applied for vma's that would be truly removed
as part of the merge (see Patch 9).  This would then allow reverting the
quick fix d014cd7c1c ("mm, mremap: fix mremap() expanding for vma's with
vm_ops->close()").  This was successful enough to allow the revert (Patch
10).  Checks using can_vma_merge_before() are still pessimistic about
possible vma removal, and making them precise would probably complicate
the vma_merge() code too much.

Liam's 6.3-rc1 simplification of vma_merge() and removal of __vma_adjust()
was very much helpful in understanding the vma_merge() implementation and
especially when vma removals can happen, which is now very obvious.  While
studing the code, I've found ways to make it hopefully even more easy to
follow, so that's the patches 1-8.  That made me also notice a bug that's
now already fixed in 6.3-rc1.


This patch (of 10):

In the merging preparation part of vma_merge(), some vma pointer variables
are assigned for later execution of the merge, but also read from in the
block itself.  The code is easier follow and check against the cases
diagram in the comment if the code reads only from the "primary" vma
variables prev, mid, next instead.  No functional change.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230309111258.24079-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230309111258.24079-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>]
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
History 2023-04-05 19:42:48 -07:00
arch mips: drop ranges for definition of ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER 2023-04-05 19:42:47 -07:00
block block: remove obsolete config BLOCK_COMPAT 2023-03-16 09:35:44 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
crypto asymmetric_keys: log on fatal failures in PE/pkcs7 2023-03-21 16:23:56 +00:00
Documentation mm: userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP to install WP PTEs 2023-04-05 19:42:48 -07:00
drivers mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
fs mm: userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP to install WP PTEs 2023-04-05 19:42:48 -07:00
include mm: userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP to install WP PTEs 2023-04-05 19:42:48 -07:00
init bootconfig: Change message if no bootconfig with CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_FORCE=y 2023-03-22 22:21:43 +09:00
io_uring block-6.3-2023-03-24 2023-03-24 14:10:39 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
lib maple_tree: export symbol mas_preallocate() 2023-03-28 16:20:14 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/mmap/vma_merge: use only primary pointers for preparing merge 2023-04-05 19:42:48 -07:00
net mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
rust Rust fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-03 14:51:15 -08:00
samples LoongArch changes for v6.3 2023-03-01 09:27:00 -08:00
scripts checksyscalls: ignore fstat to silence build warning on LoongArch 2023-03-23 17:18:32 -07:00
security mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely 2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
sound ALSA: hda/ca0132: fixup buffer overrun at tuning_ctl_set() 2023-03-14 17:04:53 +01:00
tools mm: userfaultfd: add UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP to install WP PTEs 2023-04-05 19:42:48 -07:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM/riscv changes for 6.3 2023-02-15 12:33:28 -05:00
.clang-format cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations 2023-03-05 14:30:34 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: move source components to rpmbuild/SOURCES 2023-03-16 22:45:56 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add an entry for Leonard Crestez 2023-03-28 15:24:32 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the tree. 2023-02-23 17:55:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS mm: add tracepoints to ksm 2023-03-28 16:20:08 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.3-rc4 2023-03-26 14:40:20 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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 Restructured Text 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.