[merged mm-stable] device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: device/dax: update devdax to use mmap_prepare
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

------------------------------------------------------
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Subject: device/dax: update devdax to use mmap_prepare
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:11:19 +0100

The devdax driver does nothing special in its f_op->mmap hook, so
straightforwardly update it to use the mmap_prepare hook instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1e8665d052ac8cf2f7ff92b6c7862614f7fd306c.1760959442.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chatre, Reinette <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/dax/device.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/dax/device.c~device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare
+++ a/drivers/dax/device.c
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@
 #include "dax-private.h"
 #include "bus.h"
 
-static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-		const char *func)
+static int __check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, vm_flags_t vm_flags,
+		       unsigned long start, unsigned long end, struct file *file,
+		       const char *func)
 {
 	struct device *dev = &dev_dax->dev;
 	unsigned long mask;
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev
 		return -ENXIO;
 
 	/* prevent private mappings from being established */
-	if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) != VM_MAYSHARE) {
+	if ((vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) != VM_MAYSHARE) {
 		dev_info_ratelimited(dev,
 				"%s: %s: fail, attempted private mapping\n",
 				current->comm, func);
@@ -31,15 +32,15 @@ static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev
 	}
 
 	mask = dev_dax->align - 1;
-	if (vma->vm_start & mask || vma->vm_end & mask) {
+	if (start & mask || end & mask) {
 		dev_info_ratelimited(dev,
 				"%s: %s: fail, unaligned vma (%#lx - %#lx, %#lx)\n",
-				current->comm, func, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
+				current->comm, func, start, end,
 				mask);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (!vma_is_dax(vma)) {
+	if (!file_is_dax(file)) {
 		dev_info_ratelimited(dev,
 				"%s: %s: fail, vma is not DAX capable\n",
 				current->comm, func);
@@ -49,6 +50,13 @@ static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		     const char *func)
+{
+	return __check_vma(dev_dax, vma->vm_flags, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
+			   vma->vm_file, func);
+}
+
 /* see "strong" declaration in tools/testing/nvdimm/dax-dev.c */
 __weak phys_addr_t dax_pgoff_to_phys(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, pgoff_t pgoff,
 		unsigned long size)
@@ -285,8 +293,9 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct
 	.pagesize = dev_dax_pagesize,
 };
 
-static int dax_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static int dax_mmap_prepare(struct vm_area_desc *desc)
 {
+	struct file *filp = desc->file;
 	struct dev_dax *dev_dax = filp->private_data;
 	int rc, id;
 
@@ -297,13 +306,14 @@ static int dax_mmap(struct file *filp, s
 	 * fault time.
 	 */
 	id = dax_read_lock();
-	rc = check_vma(dev_dax, vma, __func__);
+	rc = __check_vma(dev_dax, desc->vm_flags, desc->start, desc->end, filp,
+			 __func__);
 	dax_read_unlock(id);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
-	vma->vm_ops = &dax_vm_ops;
-	vm_flags_set(vma, VM_HUGEPAGE);
+	desc->vm_ops = &dax_vm_ops;
+	desc->vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -376,7 +386,7 @@ static const struct file_operations dax_
 	.open = dax_open,
 	.release = dax_release,
 	.get_unmapped_area = dax_get_unmapped_area,
-	.mmap = dax_mmap,
+	.mmap_prepare = dax_mmap_prepare,
 	.fop_flags = FOP_MMAP_SYNC,
 };
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com are

mm-introduce-vm_maybe_guard-and-make-visible-in-proc-pid-smaps.patch
mm-add-atomic-vma-flags-and-set-vm_maybe_guard-as-such.patch
mm-add-atomic-vma-flags-and-set-vm_maybe_guard-as-such-fix.patch
mm-implement-sticky-vma-flags.patch
mm-introduce-copy-on-fork-vmas-and-make-vm_maybe_guard-one.patch
mm-set-the-vm_maybe_guard-flag-on-guard-region-install.patch
mm-set-the-vm_maybe_guard-flag-on-guard-region-install-fix.patch
tools-testing-vma-add-vma-sticky-userland-tests.patch
tools-testing-selftests-mm-add-madv_collapse-test-case.patch
tools-testing-selftests-mm-add-smaps-visibility-guard-region-test.patch
mm-correctly-handle-uffd-pte-markers.patch
mm-introduce-leaf-entry-type-and-use-to-simplify-leaf-entry-logic.patch
mm-avoid-unnecessary-uses-of-is_swap_pte.patch
mm-eliminate-is_swap_pte-when-softleaf_from_pte-suffices.patch
mm-use-leaf-entries-in-debug-pgtable-remove-is_swap_pte.patch
fs-proc-task_mmu-refactor-pagemap_pmd_range.patch
mm-avoid-unnecessary-use-of-is_swap_pmd.patch
mm-huge_memory-refactor-copy_huge_pmd-non-present-logic.patch
mm-huge_memory-refactor-change_huge_pmd-non-present-logic.patch
mm-replace-pmd_to_swp_entry-with-softleaf_from_pmd.patch
mm-introduce-pmd_is_huge-and-use-where-appropriate.patch
mm-remove-remaining-is_swap_pmd-users-and-is_swap_pmd.patch
mm-remove-non_swap_entry-and-use-softleaf-helpers-instead.patch
mm-remove-is_hugetlb_entry_.patch
mm-eliminate-further-swapops-predicates.patch
mm-replace-remaining-pte_to_swp_entry-with-softleaf_from_pte.patch
mm-rename-walk_page_range_mm.patch
mm-madvise-allow-guard-page-install-remove-under-vma-lock.patch
mm-propagate-vm_softdirty-on-merge.patch
testing-selftests-mm-add-soft-dirty-merge-self-test.patch
mm-declare-vma-flags-by-bit.patch
mm-declare-vma-flags-by-bit-fix.patch
mm-declare-vma-flags-by-bit-fix-2.patch
mm-simplify-and-rename-mm-flags-function-for-clarity.patch
tools-testing-vma-eliminate-dependency-on-vma-__vm_flags.patch
mm-introduce-vma-flags-bitmap-type.patch

[merged mm-stable] device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: device/dax: update devdax to use mmap_prepare
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

------------------------------------------------------
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Subject: device/dax: update devdax to use mmap_prepare
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:11:04 +0100

The devdax driver does nothing special in its f_op->mmap hook, so
straightforwardly update it to use the mmap_prepare hook instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d3581c50693d169102bc2d8e31be55bc2aabef97.1758135681.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chatre, Reinette <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Robin Murohy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/dax/device.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/dax/device.c~device-dax-update-devdax-to-use-mmap_prepare
+++ a/drivers/dax/device.c
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@
 #include "dax-private.h"
 #include "bus.h"
 
-static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-		const char *func)
+static int __check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, vm_flags_t vm_flags,
+		       unsigned long start, unsigned long end, struct file *file,
+		       const char *func)
 {
 	struct device *dev = &dev_dax->dev;
 	unsigned long mask;
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev
 		return -ENXIO;
 
 	/* prevent private mappings from being established */
-	if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) != VM_MAYSHARE) {
+	if ((vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) != VM_MAYSHARE) {
 		dev_info_ratelimited(dev,
 				"%s: %s: fail, attempted private mapping\n",
 				current->comm, func);
@@ -31,15 +32,15 @@ static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev
 	}
 
 	mask = dev_dax->align - 1;
-	if (vma->vm_start & mask || vma->vm_end & mask) {
+	if (start & mask || end & mask) {
 		dev_info_ratelimited(dev,
 				"%s: %s: fail, unaligned vma (%#lx - %#lx, %#lx)\n",
-				current->comm, func, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
+				current->comm, func, start, end,
 				mask);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (!vma_is_dax(vma)) {
+	if (!file_is_dax(file)) {
 		dev_info_ratelimited(dev,
 				"%s: %s: fail, vma is not DAX capable\n",
 				current->comm, func);
@@ -49,6 +50,13 @@ static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int check_vma(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		     const char *func)
+{
+	return __check_vma(dev_dax, vma->vm_flags, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
+			   vma->vm_file, func);
+}
+
 /* see "strong" declaration in tools/testing/nvdimm/dax-dev.c */
 __weak phys_addr_t dax_pgoff_to_phys(struct dev_dax *dev_dax, pgoff_t pgoff,
 		unsigned long size)
@@ -285,8 +293,9 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct
 	.pagesize = dev_dax_pagesize,
 };
 
-static int dax_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static int dax_mmap_prepare(struct vm_area_desc *desc)
 {
+	struct file *filp = desc->file;
 	struct dev_dax *dev_dax = filp->private_data;
 	int rc, id;
 
@@ -297,13 +306,14 @@ static int dax_mmap(struct file *filp, s
 	 * fault time.
 	 */
 	id = dax_read_lock();
-	rc = check_vma(dev_dax, vma, __func__);
+	rc = __check_vma(dev_dax, desc->vm_flags, desc->start, desc->end, filp,
+			 __func__);
 	dax_read_unlock(id);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
-	vma->vm_ops = &dax_vm_ops;
-	vm_flags_set(vma, VM_HUGEPAGE);
+	desc->vm_ops = &dax_vm_ops;
+	desc->vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -377,7 +387,7 @@ static const struct file_operations dax_
 	.open = dax_open,
 	.release = dax_release,
 	.get_unmapped_area = dax_get_unmapped_area,
-	.mmap = dax_mmap,
+	.mmap_prepare = dax_mmap_prepare,
 	.fop_flags = FOP_MMAP_SYNC,
 };
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com are