[merged mm-stable] mm-add-shmem_zero_setup_desc.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: add shmem_zero_setup_desc()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-add-shmem_zero_setup_desc.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

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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Subject: mm: add shmem_zero_setup_desc()
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:11:30 +0100

Add the ability to set up a shared anonymous mapping based on a VMA
descriptor rather than a VMA.

This is a prerequisite for converting to the char mm driver to use the
mmap_prepare hook.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d9181517a7e3d6b014a5697c6990d3722c2c9fcd.1760959442.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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 Hildenbrand <david@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: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@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>
---

 include/linux/shmem_fs.h |    3 +-
 mm/shmem.c               |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h~mm-add-shmem_zero_setup_desc
+++ a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ extern struct file *shmem_kernel_file_se
 					    unsigned long flags);
 extern struct file *shmem_file_setup_with_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt,
 		const char *name, loff_t size, unsigned long flags);
-extern int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_struct *);
+int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+int shmem_zero_setup_desc(struct vm_area_desc *desc);
 extern unsigned long shmem_get_unmapped_area(struct file *, unsigned long addr,
 		unsigned long len, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags);
 extern int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct ucounts *ucounts);
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-add-shmem_zero_setup_desc
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -5880,14 +5880,9 @@ struct file *shmem_file_setup_with_mnt(s
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_file_setup_with_mnt);
 
-/**
- * shmem_zero_setup - setup a shared anonymous mapping
- * @vma: the vma to be mmapped is prepared by do_mmap
- */
-int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static struct file *__shmem_zero_setup(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, vm_flags_t vm_flags)
 {
-	struct file *file;
-	loff_t size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
+	loff_t size = end - start;
 
 	/*
 	 * Cloning a new file under mmap_lock leads to a lock ordering conflict
@@ -5895,7 +5890,18 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_stru
 	 * accessible to the user through its mapping, use S_PRIVATE flag to
 	 * bypass file security, in the same way as shmem_kernel_file_setup().
 	 */
-	file = shmem_kernel_file_setup("dev/zero", size, vma->vm_flags);
+	return shmem_kernel_file_setup("dev/zero", size, vm_flags);
+}
+
+/**
+ * shmem_zero_setup - setup a shared anonymous mapping
+ * @vma: the vma to be mmapped is prepared by do_mmap
+ * Returns: 0 on success, or error
+ */
+int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct file *file = __shmem_zero_setup(vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, vma->vm_flags);
+
 	if (IS_ERR(file))
 		return PTR_ERR(file);
 
@@ -5906,6 +5912,25 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_stru
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/**
+ * shmem_zero_setup_desc - same as shmem_zero_setup, but determined by VMA
+ * descriptor for convenience.
+ * @desc: Describes VMA
+ * Returns: 0 on success, or error
+ */
+int shmem_zero_setup_desc(struct vm_area_desc *desc)
+{
+	struct file *file = __shmem_zero_setup(desc->start, desc->end, desc->vm_flags);
+
+	if (IS_ERR(file))
+		return PTR_ERR(file);
+
+	desc->vm_file = file;
+	desc->vm_ops = &shmem_anon_vm_ops;
+
+	return 0;
+}
 
 /**
  * shmem_read_folio_gfp - read into page cache, using specified page allocation flags.
_

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