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Lorenzo Stoakes
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It is confusing for vmg->target to sometimes be the target merged VMA and in one case not. Fix this by having commit_merge() use its awareness of the vmg->_adjust_next_start case to know that it is manipulating a separate vma, abstracted in the 'vma' local variable. Place removal and adjust VMA determination logic into init_multi_vma_prep(), as the flags give us enough information to do so, and since this is the function that sets up the vma_prepare struct it makes sense to do so here. Doing this significantly simplifies commit_merge(), allowing us to eliminate the 'merge_target' handling, initialise the VMA iterator in a more sensible place and simply return vmg->target consistently. This also allows us to simplify setting vmg->target in vma_merge_existing_range() since we are then left only with two cases - merge left (or both) where the target is vmg->prev or merge right in which the target is vmg->next. This makes it easy for somebody reading the code to know what VMA will actually be the one returned and merged into and removes a great deal of the confusing 'adjust' nonsense. This patch has no change in functional behaviour. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/50f96e31ab1980eaaf1006e34a4f6e6dad9320b8.1738326519.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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