Re: [PATCH v2 06/33] mm/rmap: parameterise vma_interval_tree_*() by address_space

On Fri Jul 10, 2026 at 4:16 PM EDT, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> The file-backed mapping interval tree functions vma_interval_tree_*()
> accept a raw rb_root_cached pointer to determine the tree in which they are
> operating.
>
> However, in each case, this is always associated with an address_space data
> type.
>
> So simply pass a pointer to that instead to simplify the code, and more
> clearly differentiate between these operations and those concerning
> anonymous mappings.
>
> While we're here, make the generated interval tree functions static as they
> do not need to be used externally (any previously existing external users
> have now been removed).
>
> We also rename VMA parameters from 'node' to 'vma' as calling this a node
> is simply confusing, update the input index types to pgoff_t since they
> reference page offsets and rename the parameters to pgoff_start and
> pgoff_last.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c          |  2 +-
>  arch/arm/mm/flush.c               |  2 +-
>  arch/nios2/mm/cacheflush.c        |  2 +-
>  arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c        |  2 +-
>  fs/dax.c                          |  2 +-
>  fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c              | 15 +++++-----
>  include/linux/mm.h                | 34 ++++++++++++-----------
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c           |  2 +-
>  mm/hugetlb.c                      |  4 +--
>  mm/interval_tree.c                | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  mm/khugepaged.c                   |  4 +--
>  mm/memory-failure.c               |  7 ++---
>  mm/memory.c                       |  8 +++---
>  mm/mmap.c                         |  3 +-
>  mm/nommu.c                        |  8 +++---
>  mm/pagewalk.c                     |  2 +-
>  mm/rmap.c                         |  3 +-
>  mm/vma.c                          | 14 ++++------
>  tools/testing/vma/include/stubs.h |  4 +--
>  19 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
>

Thanks for the cleanup.

Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>

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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi