From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E72F4280338; Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784136806; cv=none; b=J/sWFpvKtrW3KnAzC1KOv540LqtsoapmJrOz8fVYCd0zIlUyWlKV6MPxeNZAEHg8B/NBEID8MrA0r3kyhXNigIdbFAbZNRjgGWR/BvGnZj6iaOlEKvUzFtGSdd+DSeGg0rW79Ap2iMDsF3lxamWiqoHO7aVn7sFPayVGr5SwGBM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784136806; c=relaxed/simple; bh=2kIobsp9C2aKfuvVpq3N+mod1O+SLmySM9VJvlNCyS4=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=o97jp2ltkXdVvhtBAZBPjLgV7qCYeE/7fsDMzxldqjfDHQJ0OsiQozozlRwVlY3DL9PxQCZQ8afShDdjwo6jsVRVGhltZ1L29Sl2WF9csYyju1i1tLRLBS4x581QGJjb6DS3i4nyKt3Q9oEn0fN9/hfk7utiqo5yjIbX5dWO7D8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Plq0sbET; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Plq0sbET" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 969781F000E9; Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:33:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1784136804; bh=AbFSf57xlvRU+7oRSFFrOCqwNArP44ynDnY9nIh20AY=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=Plq0sbETLnXdMAnyr13Z7qquALZkI61HIXPlDtbTJXle3KmIPSHsRIwRYmKnpLWlo 19eJ5bHwIL3oVOiP8iDflJPmZt6j5Nw6MrL4/VfsyRh9F92YzgyXkq5Lczs8NiSMUN SstWyL1GrOp98wvFI0l0tVtqvON5NCaGqZvAS8cVtNQkvzu+Lm1N2Vmd20/5FL+Jxw KE/82mNtPPptX6Y3tbqbGmoMiIylHvRURsOGhlxwi7dZy3XzZ34mvZ0d/HomYcJgHU iBrea2Oz0LWMg2oxV3xJb5F+NM9SzEsbtXr+EtFE0PGDRHLu1KboOje6+diumQQuqQ LXqmrN3WsVtEg== Message-ID: <84b0cb24-ceeb-4a8a-ba6b-cba2c9f9c4bf@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:33:00 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 22/33] mm/vma: introduce vma_assert_can_modify() Content-Language: en-US To: Lorenzo Stoakes , Andrew Morton , David Hildenbrand , "Liam R. 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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/10/26 22:17, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > vma_assert_write_locked() and vma_assert_attached() are useful for their > own purposes, however VMA code absolutely does allow the modification of > non-write locked VMAs if they are at that point detached (i.e. unreachable > from anywhere). > > It's therefore useful to be able to assert that a VMA is either > detached (modification doesn't matter) or write locked (you're explicitly > locked for modification). > > Therefore introduce vma_assert_can_modify() for this purpose. > > While we're here, make vma_is_attached() available generally - if > !CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK, then there's no sense in which a VMA is > detached (vma_mark_detached() is a noop), so have this default to true in > this case. > > Also update VMA userland tests to reflect this change, correcting the > previously open-coded vma_assert_[attached,detached]() there. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)