linux-stable.git/tools/testing/vma/shared.c, branch v7.3-rc2

mm: propagate VMA anonymous page offset on map, remap, split + merge

2026-08-25T01:42:52+00:00

We must correctly update VMA anonymous page offset state on all VMA
operations that would result in it changing, with special attention given
to remapping.

We cover most cases by simply updating vma_set_range() to do so (with a
new anonymous page offset parameter), but also notably must update the
merging and mapping logic to propagate this parameter correctly.

The remap logic remains the same - we may update the anonymous page offset
if the VMA is unfaulted, but now this applies to MAP_PRIVATE file-backed
mappings too, so we update the code to reflect this.

Note that we use __linear_anon_page_index() upon remap as the VMA may be
shared, in order that we update the field consistently regardless of VMA
type.

Similarly, pass through anon page offset to the merge logic, updating the
vma_merge_struct struct to propagate it, and also use
__linear_anon_page_index() to obtain the anonymous page index so it can be
safely used for both shared and MAP_PRIVATE file-backed mappings.

In copy_vma(), the anonymous page offset is updated regardless of whether
the mapping is a CoW mapping or not.  This is both to keep the anonymous
page offset consistent even for non-CoW mappings (it is set so should at
least remain correct) and makes the logic cleaner.

A self-merge however remains permitted only for mappings which can have a
populated vma->anon_vma and do not require alignment on a separate file
offset - that is pure anonymous VMAs, so only set can_self_merge if
vma_is_anonymous().

Finally, we update insert_vm_struct() to correctly set the anonymous page
offset on insertion of a VMA.

We simply ensure state is correctly propagated here, so no functional
changes are intended.

Also update VMA userland tests to reflect this change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v5-9-c21581c0c3c8@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Deucher 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alistair Popple 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Baolin Wang 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Barry Song 
Cc: Boris Brezillon 
Cc: Byungchul Park 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Chris Li 
Cc: Christan König 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Cc: Dev Jain 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Gregory Price (Meta) 
Cc: Harry Yoo 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Huang Ray 
Cc: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Janosch Frank 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Joshua Hahn 
Cc: Kairui Song 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Kemeng Shi 
Cc: Lance Yang 
Cc: Liam R. Howlett 
Cc: Liviu Dudau 
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst 
Cc: Marc Rutland 
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" 
Cc: Matthew Auld 
Cc: Matthew Brost 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Maxime Ripard 
Cc: Miaohe Lin 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Muchun Song 
Cc: Namhyung kim 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Nhat Pham 
Cc: Nico Pache 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Oscar Salvador 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Peter Xu 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rakie Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi 
Cc: Ryan Roberts 
Cc: Steven Price 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Hellström 
Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: xu xin 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/vma: make vma_set_range() static, drop insert_vm_struct() decl

2026-08-05T02:19:02+00:00

With __install_special_mapping() moved to vma.c, vma_set_range() can be
made into a static function there and is now completely isolated from the
rest of mm.

While we're here, we can also remove the insert_vm_struct() declaration
from mm.h - the function is implemented in vma.c and already declared in
vma.h, and has no users outside of mm.

Also update the VMA userland tests to reflect this change.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710-b4-pre-scalable-cow-v2-25-2a5aa403d977@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato 
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price 
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: Ackerley Tng 
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) 
Cc: Kai Huang 
Cc: Marek Szyprowski 
Cc: SJ Park 
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann 
Cc: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: convert bulk of test code to vma_flags_t

2026-04-05T20:53:38+00:00

Convert the test code to utilise vma_flags_t as opposed to the deprecate
vm_flags_t as much as possible.

As part of this change, add VMA_STICKY_FLAGS and VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS as
early versions of what these defines will look like in the kernel logic
once this logic is implemented.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/df90efe29300bd899989f695be4ae3adc901a828.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) 
Cc: Albert Ou 
Cc: Alexander Gordeev 
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Anton Ivanov 
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chengming Zhou 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Christian Brauner 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dinh Nguyen 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Johannes Berg 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Cc: Paul Moore 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Stephen Smalley 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Sven Schnelle 
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) 
Cc: WANG Xuerui 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: xu xin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files

2026-02-12T23:42:59+00:00

So far the userland VMA tests have been established as a rough expression
of what's been possible.

Adapt it into a more usable form by separating out tests and shared
helper functions.

Since we test functions that are declared statically in mm/vma.c, we make
use of the trick of #include'ing kernel C files directly.

In order for the tests to continue to function, we must therefore also
this way into the tests/ directory.

We try to keep as much shared logic actually modularised into a separate
compilation unit in shared.c, however the merge_existing() and
attach_vma() helpers rely on statically declared mm/vma.c functions so
these must be declared in main.c.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0455ccfe4fdcd1c962c64f76304f612e5662a4e.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett 
Cc: Baolin Wang 
Cc: Barry Song 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Dev Jain 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Cc: Damien Le Moal 
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" 
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen 
Cc: Yury Norov 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Pedro Falcato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton