The patch titled
ksm: remove VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS
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ksm-remove-vm_mergeable_flags.patch
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Subject: ksm: remove VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
KSM originally stood for Kernel Shared Memory: but the kernel has long
supported shared memory, and VM_SHARED and VM_MAYSHARE vmas, and KSM is
something else. So we switched to saying "merge" instead of "share".
But Chris Wright points out that this is confusing where mmap.c merges
adjacent vmas: most especially in the name VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS, used by
is_mergeable_vma() to let vmas be merged despite flags being different.
Call it VMA_MERGE_DESPITE_FLAGS? Perhaps, but at present it consists
only of VM_CAN_NONLINEAR: so for now it's clearer on all sides to use
that directly, with a comment on it in is_mergeable_vma().
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mmap.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/mmap.c~ksm-remove-vm_mergeable_flags mm/mmap.c
--- a/mm/mmap.c~ksm-remove-vm_mergeable_flags
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -660,9 +660,6 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->
validate_mm(mm);
}
-/* Flags that can be inherited from an existing mapping when merging */
-#define VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS (VM_CAN_NONLINEAR)
-
/*
* If the vma has a ->close operation then the driver probably needs to release
* per-vma resources, so we don't attempt to merge those.
@@ -670,7 +667,8 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->
static inline int is_mergeable_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct file *file, unsigned long vm_flags)
{
- if ((vma->vm_flags ^ vm_flags) & ~VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS)
+ /* VM_CAN_NONLINEAR may get set later by f_op->mmap() */
+ if ((vma->vm_flags ^ vm_flags) & ~VM_CAN_NONLINEAR)
return 0;
if (vma->vm_file != file)
return 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
acpi-fix-null-bug-for-hid-uid-string.patch
mm-oom-analysis-add-shmem-vmstat.patch
ksm-add-mmu_notifier-set_pte_at_notify.patch
ksm-first-tidy-up-madvise_vma.patch
ksm-define-madv_mergeable-and-madv_unmergeable.patch
ksm-the-mm-interface-to-ksm.patch
ksm-no-debug-in-page_dup_rmap.patch
ksm-identify-pageksm-pages.patch
ksm-kernel-samepage-merging.patch
ksm-prevent-mremap-move-poisoning.patch
ksm-change-copyright-message.patch
ksm-change-ksm-nice-level-to-be-5.patch
ksm-rename-kernel_pages_allocated.patch
ksm-move-pages_sharing-updates.patch
ksm-pages_unshared-and-pages_volatile.patch
ksm-break-cow-once-unshared.patch
ksm-keep-quiet-while-list-empty.patch
ksm-five-little-cleanups.patch
ksm-fix-endless-loop-on-oom.patch
ksm-distribute-remove_mm_from_lists.patch
ksm-fix-oom-deadlock.patch
ksm-sysfs-and-defaults.patch
ksm-add-some-documentation.patch
ksm-remove-vm_mergeable_flags.patch
getrusage-fill-ru_maxrss-value.patch
getrusage-fill-ru_maxrss-value-update.patch
ramfs-move-ramfs_magic-to-include-linux-magich.patch
memory-controller-soft-limit-organize-cgroups-v9-fix.patch
prio_tree-debugging-patch.patch
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