On 10/8/23 22:23, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > Only in mmap_region() and copy_vma() do we add VMAs which occupy entirely > new regions of virtual memory. > > We can share the logic between these invocations and make it absolutely > explici to reduce confusion around the rather inscrutible parameters explicit ... inscrutable > possessed by vma_merge(). > > This also paves the way for a simplification of the core vma_merge() > implementation, as we seek to make the function entirely an implementation > detail. > > Note that on mmap_region(), vma fields are initialised to zero, so we can > simply reference these rather than explicitly specifying NULL. Right, if they were different from NULL, the code would be broken already. > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>