[PATCH 01/16] mm/shmem: update shmem to use mmap_prepare

Baolin Wang baolin.wang at linux.alibaba.com
Mon Sep 8 20:19:16 PDT 2025



On 2025/9/8 19:10, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> This simply assigns the vm_ops so is easily updated - do so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>
> ---

LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang at linux.alibaba.com>

>   mm/shmem.c | 9 +++++----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index 29e1eb690125..cfc33b99a23a 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -2950,16 +2950,17 @@ int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct ucounts *ucounts)
>   	return retval;
>   }
>   
> -static int shmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +static int shmem_mmap_prepare(struct vm_area_desc *desc)
>   {
> +	struct file *file = desc->file;
>   	struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
>   
>   	file_accessed(file);
>   	/* This is anonymous shared memory if it is unlinked at the time of mmap */
>   	if (inode->i_nlink)
> -		vma->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops;
> +		desc->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops;
>   	else
> -		vma->vm_ops = &shmem_anon_vm_ops;
> +		desc->vm_ops = &shmem_anon_vm_ops;
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> @@ -5229,7 +5230,7 @@ static const struct address_space_operations shmem_aops = {
>   };
>   
>   static const struct file_operations shmem_file_operations = {
> -	.mmap		= shmem_mmap,
> +	.mmap_prepare	= shmem_mmap_prepare,
>   	.open		= shmem_file_open,
>   	.get_unmapped_area = shmem_get_unmapped_area,
>   #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS




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