Re: [PATCH 0/1] mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/22, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > I never understood why ->mremap() lives in file_operations, not in
>> > vm_operations_struct. To me vma->vm_file->f_op in move_vma() just
>> > looks strange, vma->vm_ops->mremap(new_vma) looks "obviously better".
>> >
>> > And afaics more useful. CRIU remaps vdso, but this does not update
>> > mm->context.vdso. OK, probably this does not matter currently, CRIU
>> > can't c/r the compat tasks, and 64-bit apps do not use context.vdso.
>> > Afaics. Still, I think we might want to have special_mapping_remap()
>> > and we can't do this because ->vm_file == NULL.
>>
>> I would like this.  Then I could clean up and resubmit my patch to
>> keep context.vdso up to date.
>
> Cough... where can I find this patch ? ;)
>

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=vdso/vma_tracking

--Andy
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