Re: [PATCH 24/30] mm/vma: update vma_shrink() to not pass unnecessary pgoff parameter

Gregory Price <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.nvdimm,dev.linux.lists.damon,dev.linux.lists.iommu,org.freedesktop.lists.dri-devel,org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.linux-arm-msm,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-parisc,org.kernel.vger.linux-perf-users,org.kernel.vger.linux-sgx,org.kernel.vger.linux-tegra,org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <alFBBGN6a30A3bQ9@gourry-fedora-PF4VCD3F>
On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 01:23:35PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> vma_shrink() does not need to adjust vma->vm_pgoff, we were passing this
> parameter solely to satisfy vma_set_range()'s requirement for pgoff being
> specified.
> 
> Since vma_set_range() is now isolated to vma.c, we can simply introduce
> __vma_set_range() which sets only vma->vm_[start, end], and invoke this
> instead, removing pgoff from vma_shrink() altogether.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <[email protected]>
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.