The patch titled
Subject: mm: pagewalk: don't check vma in walk_page_range_novma()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-pagewalk-dont-check-vma-in-walk_page_range_novma.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-pagewalk-dont-check-vma-in-walk_page_range_novma.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: pagewalk: don't check vma in walk_page_range_novma()
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:00:47 +0200
Directly call walk_pgd_range() as that is everything that will actually
happen in __walk_page_range() besides checking if the vma is set.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/21585888.EfDdHjke4D@devpool047
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eb@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/pagewalk.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c~mm-pagewalk-dont-check-vma-in-walk_page_range_novma
+++ a/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ int walk_page_range_novma(struct mm_stru
mmap_assert_locked(walk.mm);
- return __walk_page_range(start, end, &walk);
+ return walk_pgd_range(start, end, &walk);
}
int walk_page_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from eb@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-pagewalk-make-error-checks-more-obvious.patch
mm-pagewalk-dont-check-vma-in-walk_page_range_novma.patch
mm-pagewalk-fix-documentation-of-pte-hole-handling.patch
mm-pagewalk-add-api-documentation-for-walk_page_range_novma.patch
mm-pagewalk-allow-walk_page_range_novma-without-mm.patch
mm-pagewalk-move-variables-to-more-local-scope-tweak-loops.patch
