Re: [PATCH 22/30] mm/vma: move __install_special_mapping() to vma.c
Gregory Price <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 01:23:33PM +0100, 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. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <[email protected]>