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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> | 2025-05-29 18:15:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-07-09 22:41:53 -0700 |
| commit | b914c47d46da2ac66425521d304cbc8729153556 (patch) | |
| tree | 18c27dfbaf5c752ac88f94492238fc925e79a614 | |
| parent | de195c67bfcbc770bb6327bbfd3010f1c371216a (diff) | |
mm: ksm: refer to special VMAs via VM_SPECIAL in ksm_compatible()
There's no need to spell out all the special cases, also doing it this way
makes it absolutely clear that we preclude unmergeable VMAs in general,
and puts the other excluded flags in stark and clear contrast.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c8be5b055163b164c8824020164076ee3b9389bd.1748537921.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Xu Xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/ksm.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -679,9 +679,8 @@ static int break_ksm(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, bool lock_v static bool ksm_compatible(const struct file *file, vm_flags_t vm_flags) { - if (vm_flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE | VM_PFNMAP | - VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_HUGETLB | - VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_DROPPABLE)) + if (vm_flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE | VM_SPECIAL | + VM_HUGETLB | VM_DROPPABLE)) return false; /* just ignore the advice */ if (file_is_dax(file)) |