Re: cleanup vfree and vunmap

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On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 05:20:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > this little series untangles the vfree and vunmap code path a bit.
> > 
> > For the KASAN maintainers:  the interesting patch re KASAN is patch 8.
> > 
> > Note that it depends on 'Revert "remoteproc: qcom_q6v5_mss: map/unmap metadata
> > region before/after use"' in linux-next.
> > 
> 
> In what way does it depend?  Not textually.

It abuses VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS with vmap, which this series explicitly
forbids.

> I could merge the series as-is into mm-unstable, but presumably that
> tree will now blow up if someone uses qcom_q6v5_mss.c.  Which I suspect
> is unlikely, but taking a copy of a899d542b687c9b ("Revert "remoteproc:
> qcom_q6v5_mss: map/unmap metadata region before/after use"") is easy
> enough, so I'll do that.

Ok.




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