[PATCH 0/5] Simplify /proc/$pid/maps implementation

[Matthew Wilcox]

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Back in 2005, we merged a patch from Akamai that sped up /proc/$pid/maps
by using f_version to stash the user virtual address that we'd just
displayed.  That wasn't necessary; we can just use the private *ppos for
the same purpose.  There have also been some other odd choices made over
the years that use the seq_file infrastructure in some non-idiomatic ways.

Tested by using 'dd' with various different 'bs=' parameters to check that
calling ->start, ->stop and ->next at various offsets work as expected.

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (5):
  proc: Inline vma_stop into m_stop
  proc: remove m_cache_vma
  proc: Use ppos instead of m->version
  seq_file: Remove m->version
  proc: Inline m_next_vma into m_next

 fs/proc/task_mmu.c       | 95 +++++++++++++---------------------------
 fs/seq_file.c            | 28 ------------
 include/linux/seq_file.h |  1 -
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)

base-commit: d5226fa6dbae0569ee43ecfc08bdcd6770fc4755
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