Re: [PATCH] mm: ensure the uniformity of arguments passed to do_mmap(..)

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 03:39:25PM +0900, Leesoo Ahn wrote:
> Standardize the way of passing a value to @populate parameter of do_mmap(..)
> as follow:
> 
> 1. Caller must initialize the variable to 0, except it's clarified as
>    the name of the variable, 'unused'.
> 2. do_mmap(..) doesn't take care of its initialization.

Why?  This seems fragile.