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mremap uses vma_merge() in the case where a VMA needs to be extended. This can be significantly simplified and abstracted. This makes it far easier to understand what the actual function is doing, avoids future mistakes in use of the confusing vma_merge() function and importantly allows us to make future changes to how vma_merge() is implemented by knowing explicitly which merge cases each invocation uses. Note that in the mremap() extend case, we perform this merge only when old_len == vma->vm_end - addr. The extension_start, i.e. the start of the extended portion of the VMA is equal to addr + old_len, i.e. vma->vm_end. With this refactoring, vma_merge() is no longer required anywhere except mm/mmap.c, so mark it static. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16cbdc2e72d37a1a097c39dc7d1fee8919a1c93.1697043508.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@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.