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authorDavid Hildenbrand <[email protected]>2022-10-21 12:11:38 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2022-12-11 18:12:07 -0800
commitc31783eeae7b22dc3f6edde7339de6112959225d (patch)
treefa381e0068e1c1f360dce1353a5d0bf3b956e34d /include/linux
parent93fb70aa5904c2577fab8100fa990ecfa4f5b4c7 (diff)
mm/pagewalk: don't trigger test_walk() in walk_page_vma()
As Peter points out, the caller passes a single VMA and can just do that check itself. And in fact, no existing users rely on test_walk() getting called. So let's just remove it and make the implementation slightly more efficient. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pagewalk.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pagewalk.h b/include/linux/pagewalk.h
index f3fafb731ffd..37dc0208862d 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagewalk.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagewalk.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ struct mm_walk;
* "do page table walk over the current vma", returning
* a negative value means "abort current page table walk
* right now" and returning 1 means "skip the current vma"
+ * Note that this callback is not called when the caller
+ * passes in a single VMA as for walk_page_vma().
* @pre_vma: if set, called before starting walk on a non-null vma.
* @post_vma: if set, called after a walk on a non-null vma, provided
* that @pre_vma and the vma walk succeeded.