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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
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Patch series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address". The current vma_address() pretends that the ambiguity between head & tail page is an advantage. If you pass a head page to vma_address(), it will operate on all pages in the folio, while if you pass a tail page, it will operate on a single page. That's not what any of the callers actually want, so first convert all callers to use vma_pgoff_address() and then rename vma_pgoff_address() to vma_address(). This patch (of 3): If 'page' is the first page of a large folio then vma_address() will scan for any page in the entire folio. This can lead to page_mapped_in_vma() returning true if some of the tail pages are mapped and the head page is not. This could lead to memory failure choosing to kill a task unnecessarily. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328225831.1765286-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240328225831.1765286-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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