Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 06/24, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:49:14PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Wait... Documentation/filesystems/Locking doesn't mention
> > ->mremap() at all.
> >
> > So you actually ask me to add the new documentation? ;)
>
> I tried ;)

Understand ;) but I failed to do this. Serisouly, I simply don't
know what can I add into this (outadted anyway) section except
"called when move_page_tables() targets this vma".

> > I tried to make the minimal change before ->mremap() finds another
> > user in file_operations. I thinks it needs more arguments, at least
> > new_addr and new_len, otherwise it is not easy to document it. The
> > same for f_op->mremap() of course.
> >
> > Currently this does not matter, the only user is aio.c and
> > VM_DONTEXPAND means that it is not mergeable, so mremap() always
> > creates the new vma.
> >
> > Hmm. Can't we do this change and add the documentation later?
>
> I'm fine with that.

OK, so I am sending v2 with the only change: rename aio_ring_remap
to aio_ring_mremap as you suggested.

Oleg.