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Only in mmap_region() and copy_vma() do we attempt to merge VMAs which occupy entirely new regions of virtual memory. We can abstract this logic and make the intent of this invocations of it completely explicit, rather than invoking vma_merge() with an inscrutable wall of parameters. This also paves the way for a simplification of the core vma_merge() implementation, as we seek to make it entirely an implementation detail. The VMA merge call in mmap_region() occurs only for file-backed mappings, where each of the parameters previously specified as NULL are defaulted to NULL in vma_init() (called by vm_area_alloc()). This matches the previous behaviour of specifying NULL for a number of fields, however note that prior to this call we pass the VMA to the file system driver via call_mmap(), which may in theory adjust fields that we pass in to vma_merge_new_vma(). Therefore we actually resolve an oversight here by allowing for the fact that the driver may have done this. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3dc71d17e307756a54781d4a4ce7315cf8b18bea.1697043508.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.