mm: add vma_lookup(), update find_vma_intersection() comments
Patch series "mm: Add vma_lookup()", v2.
Many places in the kernel use find_vma() to get a vma and then check the
start address of the vma to ensure the next vma was not returned.
Other places use the find_vma_intersection() call with add, addr + 1 as
the range; looking for just the vma at a specific address.
The third use of find_vma() is by developers who do not know that the
function starts searching at the provided address upwards for the next
vma. This results in a bug that is often overlooked for a long time.
Adding the new vma_lookup() function will allow for cleaner code by
removing the find_vma() calls which check limits, making
find_vma_intersection() calls of a single address to be shorter, and
potentially reduce the incorrect uses of find_vma().
This patch (of 22):
Many places in the kernel use find_vma() to get a vma and then check the
start address of the vma to ensure the next vma was not returned.
Other places use the find_vma_intersection() call with add, addr + 1 as
the range; looking for just the vma at a specific address.
The third use of find_vma() is by developers who do not know that the
function starts searching at the provided address upwards for the next
vma. This results in a bug that is often overlooked for a long time.
Adding the new vma_lookup() function will allow for cleaner code by
removing the find_vma() calls which check limits, making
find_vma_intersection() calls of a single address to be shorter, and
potentially reduce the incorrect uses of find_vma().
Also change find_vma_intersection() comments and declaration to be of the
correct length and add kernel documentation style comment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521174745.2219620-1-Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521174745.2219620-2-Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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