Re: [PATCH 22/30] mm/vma: move __install_special_mapping() to vma.c

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 01:23:33PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:

This function is operating on VMAs and rightly belongs in vma.c, where it
can be subject to VMA userland testing and allows us to isolate it from the
rest of mm.

The _install_special_mapping() function will remain in mmap.c as a wrapper,
since this is used by architecture-specific code.

Doing so allows us to isolate more functions in vma.c for the same reasons.

This forms part of work to allow for tracking MAP_PRIVATE file-backed
mappings by their anonymous virtual page offset, as doing so allows us to
isolate and keep code that interacts with this together.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>