Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/mmap: fix various coding style warnings

["Zi Yan" <ziy@nvidia.com>]

On Sat Sep 5, 2026 at 10:01 AM EDT, Christos Skarlos wrote:
> Resolve coding style warnings and errors flagged by checkpatch.pl script. Specifically:
> - Remove the obsolete filename reference in the top comment.
> - Replace <asm/cacheflush.h> and <asm/mmu_context.h> with <linux/...>.
> - Add missing blank lines after variable declarations and replace spaces with tabs where needed.
>
> No functional changes are introduced.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christos Skarlos <christosskarlos.kernel@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/mmap.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index 4bf26b0f1e6e..626d3d2493ae 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>  /*
> - * mm/mmap.c

Why?

>   *
>   * Written by obz.
>   *
> @@ -50,9 +49,9 @@
>  #include <linux/memfd.h>
>  
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> -#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> +#include <linux/cacheflush.h>
>  #include <asm/tlb.h>
> -#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
> +#include <linux/mmu_context.h>

mmap.c does not use any functions in linux versions, why replace asm
versions with them? checkpatch.pl has no check for these.

<snip>

> @@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ find_vma_prev(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>  			struct vm_area_struct **pprev)
>  {
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> +
>  	VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, addr);

Have you checked the definition of VMA_ITERATOR? It declares struct
vma_iterator.

>  
>  	vma = vma_iter_load(&vmi);
> @@ -1017,12 +1018,12 @@ struct vm_area_struct *find_extend_vma_locked(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned lon
>  
>  #if defined(CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP)
>  
> -#define vma_expand_up(vma,addr) expand_upwards(vma, addr)
> +#define vma_expand_up(vma, addr) expand_upwards(vma, addr)
>  #define vma_expand_down(vma, addr) (-EFAULT)
>  
>  #else
>  
> -#define vma_expand_up(vma,addr) (-EFAULT)
> +#define vma_expand_up(vma, addr) (-EFAULT)
>  #define vma_expand_down(vma, addr) expand_downwards(vma, addr)
>  
>  #endif
> @@ -1227,6 +1228,7 @@ int vm_brk_flags(unsigned long addr, unsigned long request, bool is_exec)
>  	int ret;
>  	bool populate;
>  	LIST_HEAD(uf);
> +
>  	VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, addr);

Ditto.
>  
>  	len = PAGE_ALIGN(request);
> @@ -1290,6 +1292,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	struct mmu_gather tlb;
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>  	unsigned long nr_accounted = 0;
> +
>  	VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, 0);
>  	struct unmap_desc unmap;

Ditto.
>  
> @@ -1454,6 +1457,7 @@ static vm_fault_t special_mapping_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  
>  	if (*pages) {
>  		struct page *page = *pages;
> +
>  		get_page(page);
>  		vmf->page = page;
>  		return 0;
> @@ -1711,6 +1715,7 @@ __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
>  	int retval;
>  	unsigned long charge = 0;
>  	LIST_HEAD(uf);
> +
>  	VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, mm, 0);

Ditto.
>  
>  	if (mmap_write_lock_killable(oldmm))


-- 
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi