[PATCH 12/12] ksm: remove VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS

[Hugh Dickins]

KSM originally stood for Kernel Shared Memory: but the kernel has long
supported shared memory, and VM_SHARED and VM_MAYSHARE vmas, and KSM is
something else.  So we switched to saying "merge" instead of "share".

But Chris Wright points out that this is confusing where mmap.c merges
adjacent vmas: most especially in the name VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS, used by
is_mergeable_vma() to let vmas be merged despite flags being different.

Call it VMA_MERGE_DESPITE_FLAGS?  Perhaps, but at present it consists
only of VM_CAN_NONLINEAR: so for now it's clearer on all sides to use
that directly, with a comment on it in is_mergeable_vma().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch got lost along the way last time: no big deal but try again.

 mm/mmap.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- ksm11/mm/mmap.c	2009-08-02 13:50:41.000000000 +0100
+++ ksm12/mm/mmap.c	2009-08-02 13:51:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -660,9 +660,6 @@ again:			remove_next = 1 + (end > next->
 	validate_mm(mm);
 }
 
-/* Flags that can be inherited from an existing mapping when merging */
-#define VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS (VM_CAN_NONLINEAR)
-
 /*
  * If the vma has a ->close operation then the driver probably needs to release
  * per-vma resources, so we don't attempt to merge those.
@@ -670,7 +667,8 @@ again:			remove_next = 1 + (end > next->
 static inline int is_mergeable_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			struct file *file, unsigned long vm_flags)
 {
-	if ((vma->vm_flags ^ vm_flags) & ~VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS)
+	/* VM_CAN_NONLINEAR may get set later by f_op->mmap() */
+	if ((vma->vm_flags ^ vm_flags) & ~VM_CAN_NONLINEAR)
 		return 0;
 	if (vma->vm_file != file)
 		return 0;
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