Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] mm/rmap: track whether the page VMA mapped pgoff is anonymous

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 09:17:26AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 8/3/26 16:32, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 04:02:45PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >> On 8/3/26 15:51, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As per commit message:
> >>>
> >>> 	This is laying the groundwork for eventually using anonymous page offsets
> >>> 	as the index for all anonymous folios.
> >>>
> >>> 	No functional change intended.
> >>>
> >>> I cannot enable an effective change here, because if I did I'd break the kernel
> >>> and introduce a bisection hazard.
> >>
> >> You can just throw in a patch that cleans that up and avoids messing with confusing pgoff?
> >
> > You mean do a separate patch for this change?
> >
> > The existing code is already very confusing :) it becomes worse with the
> > anon stuff added, hence the change.
> >
> > I will separate it out assuming this is what you mean?
>
> Right, if the vma_address_end() is not required in this patch (and does not fall
> under "track whether the page VMA mapped pgoff is anonymous"), just have it in a
> separate cleanup patch "prepare vma_address_end() for further changes" etc.

Cool, will do!

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

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Cheers, Lorenzo