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Patch series "mm: Add vma_lookup()", v2. Many places in the kernel use find_vma() to get a vma and then check the start address of the vma to ensure the next vma was not returned. Other places use the find_vma_intersection() call with add, addr + 1 as the range; looking for just the vma at a specific address. The third use of find_vma() is by developers who do not know that the function starts searching at the provided address upwards for the next vma. This results in a bug that is often overlooked for a long time. Adding the new vma_lookup() function will allow for cleaner code by removing the find_vma() calls which check limits, making find_vma_intersection() calls of a single address to be shorter, and potentially reduce the incorrect uses of find_vma(). This patch (of 22): Many places in the kernel use find_vma() to get a vma and then check the start address of the vma to ensure the next vma was not returned. Other places use the find_vma_intersection() call with add, addr + 1 as the range; looking for just the vma at a specific address. The third use of find_vma() is by developers who do not know that the function starts searching at the provided address upwards for the next vma. This results in a bug that is often overlooked for a long time. Adding the new vma_lookup() function will allow for cleaner code by removing the find_vma() calls which check limits, making find_vma_intersection() calls of a single address to be shorter, and potentially reduce the incorrect uses of find_vma(). Also change find_vma_intersection() comments and declaration to be of the correct length and add kernel documentation style comment. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521174745.2219620-1-Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521174745.2219620-2-Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@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.