[PATCH v1 00/16] mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping
From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-02-27 20:09:08
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A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions. With this series, we'll have the following high-level zap/unmap functions (excluding high-level folio zapping): * unmap_vmas() for actual unmapping (vmas will go away) * zap_vma(): zap all page table entries in a vma * zap_vma_for_reaping(): zap_vma() that must not block * zap_vma_range(): zap a range of page table entries * zap_vma_range_batched(): zap_vma_range() with more options and batching * zap_special_vma_range(): limited zap_vma_range() for modules * __zap_vma_range(): internal helper Patch #1 is not about unmapping/zapping, but I stumbled over it while verifying MADV_DONTNEED range handling. Patch #16 is related to [1], but makes sense even independent of that. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/aYSKyr7StGpGKNqW@google.com (local) The CC list is already long enough. As these are simple changes to drivers/arch code, I'm only CCing maintainers of all changes but only reviewers of the MM bits. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <redacted> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <redacted> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@hpe.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org David Hildenbrand (Arm) (16): mm/madvise: drop range checks in madvise_free_single_vma() mm/memory: remove "zap_details" parameter from zap_page_range_single() mm/memory: inline unmap_mapping_range_vma() into unmap_mapping_range_tree() mm/memory: simplify calculation in unmap_mapping_range_tree() mm/oom_kill: use MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR in __oom_reap_task_mm() mm/oom_kill: factor out zapping of VMA into zap_vma_for_reaping() mm/memory: rename unmap_single_vma() to __zap_vma_range() mm/memory: move adjusting of address range to unmap_vmas() mm/memory: convert details->even_cows into details->skip_cows mm/memory: use __zap_vma_range() in zap_vma_for_reaping() mm/memory: inline unmap_page_range() into __zap_vma_range() mm: rename zap_vma_pages() to zap_vma() mm: rename zap_page_range_single_batched() to zap_vma_range_batched() mm: rename zap_page_range_single() to zap_vma_range() mm: rename zap_vma_ptes() to zap_special_vma_range() mm/memory: support VM_MIXEDMAP in zap_special_vma_range() arch/powerpc/platforms/book3s/vas-api.c | 2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vas.c | 2 +- arch/s390/mm/gmap_helpers.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/sgx/encl.c | 2 +- drivers/android/binder/page_range.rs | 4 +- drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 2 +- drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_mm.c | 4 +- drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 6 +- drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grumain.c | 2 +- include/linux/mm.h | 23 ++- kernel/bpf/arena.c | 3 +- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- lib/vdso/datastore.c | 2 +- mm/internal.h | 7 +- mm/interval_tree.c | 5 - mm/madvise.c | 24 +-- mm/memory.c | 217 ++++++++++++------------ mm/oom_kill.c | 15 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 7 +- rust/kernel/mm/virt.rs | 4 +- 22 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-) base-commit: df9c51269a5e2a6fbca2884a756a4011a5e78748 -- 2.43.0