Re: [PATCH v2 24/33] mm/vma: move __install_special_mapping() to vma.c
"Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <[email protected]>
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On 7/10/26 22:17, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > This function is operating on VMAs and rightly belongs in vma.c, where it > can be subject to VMA userland testing and allows us to isolate it from the > rest of mm. > > The _install_special_mapping() function will remain in mmap.c as a wrapper, > since this is used by architecture-specific code. > > Doing so allows us to isolate more functions in vma.c for the same reasons. > > This forms part of work to allow for tracking MAP_PRIVATE file-backed > mappings by their anonymous virtual page offset, as doing so allows us to > isolate and keep code that interacts with this together. > > No functional change intended. > > Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <[email protected]>