Re: [PATCH v2] mm: madvise: use walk_page_range_vma() instead of walk_page_range()

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 6/5/25 10:31, Barry Song wrote:
> From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
> 
> We've already found the VMA within madvise_walk_vmas() before calling
> specific madvise behavior functions like madvise_free_single_vma().
> So calling walk_page_range() and doing find_vma() again seems
> unnecessary. It also prevents potential optimizations in those madvise
> callbacks, particularly the use of dedicated per-VMA locking.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
> Cc: Tangquan Zheng <zhengtangquan@oppo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Thanks!

> @@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ static long madvise_guard_install(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
>  
>  		/* Returns < 0 on error, == 0 if success, > 0 if zap needed. */
> -		err = walk_page_range_mm(vma->vm_mm, start, end,
> +		err = walk_page_range_vma(vma, start, end,
>  					 &guard_install_walk_ops, &nr_pages);

Nit: breaks the parameter alignment. Do we care? It's Lorenzo's code so
maybe not ;P

>  		if (err < 0)
>  			return err;
> @@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ static long madvise_guard_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  	if (!is_valid_guard_vma(vma, /* allow_locked = */true))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	return walk_page_range(vma->vm_mm, start, end,
> +	return walk_page_range_vma(vma, start, end,
>  			       &guard_remove_walk_ops, NULL);

Same.

>  }
>