Re: [PATCH] mm/vma: correct legacy comment in vm_[un]lock_anon_vma()

[Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 01:11:15PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 11:46:29AM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 10:55:16AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>> >On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 09:43:46AM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>> >> In commit bf181b9f9d8d ("mm anon rmap: replace same_anon_vma linked
>> >> list with an interval tree."), the anon_vma.same_anon_vma is replaced by
>> >> interval tree.
>> >>
>> >> But the related comment is left behind. Correct it here.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
>> >
>> >Sorry, but I'd rather we didn't, this is un-useful churn, and I am planning to
>> >make fairly wide-ranging alterations to anon_vma going forward, at which point
>> >things like this can be addressed if needed.
>> >
>>
>> Would you mind telling more about your plan on anon_vma alteration?
>
>Well ultimately finding some means of representing this better _in general_ :)
>
>But you can see some early spring roots of this in the LWN article on my talk at
>lsf/mm - https://lwn.net/Articles/1015762/
>
>There's a bunch of patches in relation to this, the article links the
>MREMAP_RELOCATE_ANON stuff but there's also a preparatory patch that improves
>merging.
>

Thanks for your information. I would take a look.

>I plan to do quite a bit more with all of this.

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