The patch titled Subject: x86: remove vma linked list walks has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is x86-remove-vma-linked-list-walks.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/x86-remove-vma-linked-list-walks.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: x86: remove vma linked list walks Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:06:16 +0000 Use the VMA iterator instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220822150128.1562046-36-Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c~x86-remove-vma-linked-list-walks +++ a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c @@ -127,17 +127,17 @@ int vdso_join_timens(struct task_struct { struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm; struct vm_area_struct *vma; + VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, 0); mmap_read_lock(mm); - - for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) { + for_each_vma(vmi, vma) { unsigned long size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start; if (vma_is_special_mapping(vma, &vvar_mapping)) zap_page_range(vma, vma->vm_start, size); } - mmap_read_unlock(mm); + return 0; } #else @@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ int map_vdso_once(const struct vdso_imag { struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; struct vm_area_struct *vma; + VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, 0); mmap_write_lock(mm); /* @@ -363,7 +364,7 @@ int map_vdso_once(const struct vdso_imag * We could search vma near context.vdso, but it's a slowpath, * so let's explicitly check all VMAs to be completely sure. */ - for (vma = mm->mmap; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) { + for_each_vma(vmi, vma) { if (vma_is_special_mapping(vma, &vdso_mapping) || vma_is_special_mapping(vma, &vvar_mapping)) { mmap_write_unlock(mm); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are support-highmem-pages-in-vmap_pages_range_noflush.patch mm-add-vma-iterator.patch mmap-use-the-vma-iterator-in-count_vma_pages_range.patch proc-remove-vma-rbtree-use-from-nommu.patch arm64-remove-mmap-linked-list-from-vdso.patch parisc-remove-mmap-linked-list-from-cache-handling.patch powerpc-remove-mmap-linked-list-walks.patch s390-remove-vma-linked-list-walks.patch x86-remove-vma-linked-list-walks.patch xtensa-remove-vma-linked-list-walks.patch cxl-remove-vma-linked-list-walk.patch optee-remove-vma-linked-list-walk.patch um-remove-vma-linked-list-walk.patch coredump-remove-vma-linked-list-walk.patch exec-use-vma-iterator-instead-of-linked-list.patch fs-proc-task_mmu-stop-using-linked-list-and-highest_vm_end.patch acct-use-vma-iterator-instead-of-linked-list.patch perf-use-vma-iterator.patch sched-use-maple-tree-iterator-to-walk-vmas.patch fork-use-vma-iterator.patch mm-khugepaged-stop-using-vma-linked-list.patch mm-ksm-use-vma-iterators-instead-of-vma-linked-list.patch mm-mlock-use-vma-iterator-and-maple-state-instead-of-vma-linked-list.patch mm-pagewalk-use-vma_find-instead-of-vma-linked-list.patch i915-use-the-vma-iterator.patch nommu-remove-uses-of-vma-linked-list.patch