Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm, madvise: move madvise_set_anon_name() down the file

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Jun 24 2025 - 10:08:33 EST


On 24.06.25 15:03, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
Preparatory change so that we can use madvise_lock()/unlock() in the
function without forward declarations or more thorough shuffling.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/madvise.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 7e8819b5e9a0f183213ffe19d7e52bd5fda5f49d..cae064479cdf908707c45b941bd03d43d095eab6 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -133,38 +133,6 @@ static int replace_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return 0;
}
-
-static int madvise_set_anon_name(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
- unsigned long len_in, struct anon_vma_name *anon_name)
-{
- unsigned long end;
- unsigned long len;
- struct madvise_behavior madv_behavior = {
- .mm = mm,
- .behavior = __MADV_SET_ANON_VMA_NAME,
- .lock_mode = MADVISE_MMAP_WRITE_LOCK,
- .anon_name = anon_name,
- };
-
- if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
- return -EINVAL;
- len = (len_in + ~PAGE_MASK) & PAGE_MASK;
-
- /* Check to see whether len was rounded up from small -ve to zero */
- if (len_in && !len)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- end = start + len;
- if (end < start)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if (end == start)
- return 0;
-
- madv_behavior.range.start = start;
- madv_behavior.range.end = end;
- return madvise_walk_vmas(&madv_behavior);
-}
#else /* CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME */
static int replace_anon_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct anon_vma_name *anon_name)
@@ -2109,6 +2077,38 @@ static inline bool is_valid_name_char(char ch)
!strchr(ANON_VMA_NAME_INVALID_CHARS, ch);
}
+static int madvise_set_anon_name(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long len_in, struct anon_vma_name *anon_name)
+{
+ unsigned long end;
+ unsigned long len;
+ struct madvise_behavior madv_behavior = {
+ .mm = mm,
+ .behavior = __MADV_SET_ANON_VMA_NAME,
+ .lock_mode = MADVISE_MMAP_WRITE_LOCK,
+ .anon_name = anon_name,
+ };
+
+ if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ len = (len_in + ~PAGE_MASK) & PAGE_MASK;
+
+ /* Check to see whether len was rounded up from small -ve to zero */
+ if (len_in && !len)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ end = start + len;
+ if (end < start)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (end == start)
+ return 0;
+
+ madv_behavior.range.start = start;
+ madv_behavior.range.end = end;
+ return madvise_walk_vmas(&madv_behavior);
+}
+
int set_anon_vma_name(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size,
const char __user *uname)
{


Personally, I would squash that into #4, given that #4 is pretty small ;)

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb