The patch titled
Subject: mm/pagewalk: add walk_page_range_vma()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-pagewalk-add-walk_page_range_vma.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-pagewalk-add-walk_page_range_vma.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: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/pagewalk: add walk_page_range_vma()
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:19:29 +0200
Let's add walk_page_range_vma(), which is similar to walk_page_vma(),
however, is only interested in a subset of the VMA range.
To be used in KSM code to stop using follow_page() next.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220930141931.174362-6-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/pagewalk.h | 3 +++
mm/pagewalk.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/pagewalk.h~mm-pagewalk-add-walk_page_range_vma
+++ a/include/linux/pagewalk.h
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ int walk_page_range_novma(struct mm_stru
unsigned long end, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops,
pgd_t *pgd,
void *private);
+int walk_page_range_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops,
+ void *private);
int walk_page_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops,
void *private);
int walk_page_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t first_index,
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c~mm-pagewalk-add-walk_page_range_vma
+++ a/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -517,6 +517,33 @@ int walk_page_range_novma(struct mm_stru
return walk_pgd_range(start, end, &walk);
}
+int walk_page_range_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops,
+ void *private)
+{
+ struct mm_walk walk = {
+ .ops = ops,
+ .mm = vma->vm_mm,
+ .vma = vma,
+ .private = private,
+ };
+ int err;
+
+ if (start >= end || !walk.mm)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (start < vma->vm_start || end > vma->vm_end)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ mmap_assert_locked(walk.mm);
+
+ err = walk_page_test(start, end, &walk);
+ if (err > 0)
+ return 0;
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
+ return __walk_page_range(start, end, &walk);
+}
+
int walk_page_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops,
void *private)
{
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are
selftests-vm-add-test-to-measure-madv_unmergeable-performance.patch
mm-ksm-simplify-break_ksm-to-not-rely-on-vm_fault_write.patch
mm-remove-vm_fault_write.patch
mm-ksm-fix-ksm-cow-breaking-with-userfaultfd-wp-via-fault_flag_unshare.patch
mm-pagewalk-add-walk_page_range_vma.patch
mm-ksm-convert-break_ksm-to-use-walk_page_range_vma.patch
mm-gup-remove-foll_migration.patch
