[PATCH v2 26/33] mm/vma: update vma_shrink() to not pass start, pgoff parameters

From: Lorenzo Stoakes

Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 16:31:34 EST


vma_shrink() is only used by relocate_vma_down() to shrink the tail of a
VMA. Therefore neither the start nor the pgoff parameters make any sense.

It seemed we were passing the pgoff parameter solely to satisfy
vma_set_range()'s requirement for pgoff being specified.

Since vma_set_range() is now isolated to vma.c, we can simply introduce
__vma_set_range() which sets only vma->vm_[start, end], and invoke this
instead, removing start and pgoff from vma_shrink() altogether.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vma.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++--------------
mm/vma.h | 3 +--
mm/vma_exec.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/vma/tests/merge.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vma.c b/mm/vma.c
index cc0e449ad0be..a474920a25b3 100644
--- a/mm/vma.c
+++ b/mm/vma.c
@@ -70,11 +70,17 @@ struct mmap_state {
.state = VMA_MERGE_START, \
}

-static void vma_set_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end, pgoff_t pgoff)
+static void __vma_set_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end)
{
vma->vm_start = start;
vma->vm_end = end;
+}
+
+static void vma_set_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, pgoff_t pgoff)
+{
+ __vma_set_range(vma, start, end);
vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
}

@@ -1279,27 +1285,24 @@ int vma_expand(struct vma_merge_struct *vmg)
return -ENOMEM;
}

-/*
- * vma_shrink() - Reduce an existing VMAs memory area
+/**
+ * vma_shrink() - Shrink the end of a VMA
* @vmi: The vma iterator
* @vma: The VMA to modify
- * @start: The new start
* @end: The new end
*
+ * Note that the caller may only shrink the end of the VMA.
+ *
* Returns: 0 on success, -ENOMEM otherwise
*/
int vma_shrink(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long start, unsigned long end, pgoff_t pgoff)
+ unsigned long end)
{
struct vma_prepare vp;

- WARN_ON((vma->vm_start != start) && (vma->vm_end != end));
-
- if (vma->vm_start < start)
- vma_iter_config(vmi, vma->vm_start, start);
- else
- vma_iter_config(vmi, end, vma->vm_end);
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(end > vma->vm_end);

+ vma_iter_config(vmi, end, vma->vm_end);
if (vma_iter_prealloc(vmi, NULL))
return -ENOMEM;

@@ -1307,10 +1310,10 @@ int vma_shrink(struct vma_iterator *vmi, struct vm_area_struct *vma,

init_vma_prep(&vp, vma);
vma_prepare(&vp);
- vma_adjust_trans_huge(vma, start, end, NULL);
+ vma_adjust_trans_huge(vma, vma->vm_start, end, NULL);

vma_iter_clear(vmi);
- vma_set_range(vma, start, end, pgoff);
+ __vma_set_range(vma, vma->vm_start, end);
vma_complete(&vp, vmi, vma->vm_mm);
validate_mm(vma->vm_mm);
return 0;
diff --git a/mm/vma.h b/mm/vma.h
index 14f026bf3be4..40effaa3ebe4 100644
--- a/mm/vma.h
+++ b/mm/vma.h
@@ -297,8 +297,7 @@ void validate_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);

__must_check int vma_expand(struct vma_merge_struct *vmg);
__must_check int vma_shrink(struct vma_iterator *vmi,
- struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long start, unsigned long end, pgoff_t pgoff);
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long end);

static inline int vma_iter_store_gfp(struct vma_iterator *vmi,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, gfp_t gfp)
diff --git a/mm/vma_exec.c b/mm/vma_exec.c
index e3644a3042e2..13a05e041195 100644
--- a/mm/vma_exec.c
+++ b/mm/vma_exec.c
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ int relocate_vma_down(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long shift)

vma_prev(&vmi);
/* Shrink the vma to just the new range */
- return vma_shrink(&vmi, vma, new_start, new_end, vma_start_pgoff(vma));
+ return vma_shrink(&vmi, vma, new_end);
}

/*
diff --git a/tools/testing/vma/tests/merge.c b/tools/testing/vma/tests/merge.c
index f8666a755749..e357accc8499 100644
--- a/tools/testing/vma/tests/merge.c
+++ b/tools/testing/vma/tests/merge.c
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ static bool test_simple_shrink(void)

ASSERT_FALSE(attach_vma(&mm, vma));

- ASSERT_FALSE(vma_shrink(&vmi, vma, 0, 0x1000, 0));
+ ASSERT_FALSE(vma_shrink(&vmi, vma, 0x1000));

ASSERT_EQ(vma->vm_start, 0);
ASSERT_EQ(vma->vm_end, 0x1000);

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2.55.0