Re: [PATCH v6 25/39] mm/vma: enforce that mm-managed mappings may not set VMA_IO_BIT

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 10/13/26 17:05, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> It makes no sense for a mapping whose contents the kernel does not own to
> specify that the range is MMIO.
> 
> Prior to this patch, all in-tree drivers which did so have been updated
> such that they are marked as not being mm-managed. The check WARNs and
> fails the mmap for any out-of-tree driver that still sets VMA_IO_BIT
> without a kernel mapping.
> 
> Here VMA_PFNMAP_BIT, VMA_MIXEDMAP are tested individually rather than using
> vma_flags_is_mm_managed().
> 
> This is because vma_flags_is_mm_managed() still checks for VMA_IO_BIT.
> 
> The very next commit in this series removes this, and the check is then
> converted to use vma_flags_is_mm_managed().
> 
> No functional change intended for in-tree code.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

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Cheers,

David