[PATCH v6 36/39] mm: avoid use of VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS in migrate_vma_setup()
Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
ljs at kernel.org
Tue Oct 13 08:05:16 PDT 2026
Now we have the expressive vma_is_mm_backed() predicate, use it to
determine whether to proceed with migration. This drops the VMA_IO_BIT
test, which is safe as mm-managed mappings may not set it.
hugetlb mappings are mm-backed but remain explicitly excluded, as the
migrate_vma page walk has no hugetlb support.
No functional change intended.
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs at kernel.org>
---
mm/migrate_device.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate_device.c b/mm/migrate_device.c
index b9c453c28795..9e19fadfa65c 100644
--- a/mm/migrate_device.c
+++ b/mm/migrate_device.c
@@ -739,19 +739,21 @@ static void migrate_vma_unmap(struct migrate_vma *migrate)
*/
int migrate_vma_setup(struct migrate_vma *args)
{
+ const struct vm_area_struct *vma = args->vma;
long nr_pages = (args->end - args->start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
args->start &= PAGE_MASK;
args->end &= PAGE_MASK;
- if (!args->vma || vma_test_any_mask(args->vma, VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS) ||
- vma_is_dax(args->vma))
+ if (!vma)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ /* The migrate_vma page walk has no hugetlb support. */
+ if (!vma_is_mm_backed(vma) || vma_is_hugetlb(vma) || vma_is_dax(vma))
return -EINVAL;
if (nr_pages <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
- if (args->start < args->vma->vm_start ||
- args->start >= args->vma->vm_end)
+ if (args->start < vma->vm_start || args->start >= vma->vm_end)
return -EINVAL;
- if (args->end <= args->vma->vm_start || args->end > args->vma->vm_end)
+ if (args->end <= vma->vm_start || args->end > vma->vm_end)
return -EINVAL;
if (!args->src || !args->dst)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.55.0
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