Re: [PATCH RFC v3 3/6] mm: rename get_user_page_vma_remote() to get_user_page_lookup_vma()

From: Usama Arif

Date: Mon Jul 20 2026 - 08:43:14 EST


On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:00:33 -0400 Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> get_user_page_vma_remote() faults in the page at @addr in a remote mm and
> also looks up the VMA that covers it, handing both back to the caller.
>
> This cleans up the name space for adding a get_user_page_vma() variant

nit: s/name space/namespace/

> where the caller already has the vma.
>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/mm.h | 2 +-
> mm/memory.c | 4 ++--
> mm/rmap.c | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>


I think good to add no functional change intended in the patch.

Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx>


> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> index 1a9aad6ef22a..7a6ecc3d9294 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
> @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static int __access_remote_tags(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> unsigned long tags, offset;
> void *maddr;
> - struct page *page = get_user_page_vma_remote(mm, addr,
> + struct page *page = get_user_page_lookup_vma(mm, addr,
> gup_flags, &vma);
> struct folio *folio;
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> index 3af979fb41d3..329efac0cfb3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
> @@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ static int copy_from_vaddr(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr, void *dst,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> struct page *page;
>
> - page = get_user_page_vma_remote(mm, vaddr, gup_flags, &vma);
> + page = get_user_page_lookup_vma(mm, vaddr, gup_flags, &vma);
> if (IS_ERR(page))
> return PTR_ERR(page);
> uprobe_copy_from_page(page, vaddr, dst, len);
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 485df9c2dbdd..24ead14b4790 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -3238,7 +3238,7 @@ long pin_user_pages_remote(struct mm_struct *mm,
> /*
> * Retrieves a single page alongside its VMA. Does not support FOLL_NOWAIT.
> */
> -static inline struct page *get_user_page_vma_remote(struct mm_struct *mm,
> +static inline struct page *get_user_page_lookup_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
> unsigned long addr,
> int gup_flags,
> struct vm_area_struct **vmap)
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index ff338c2abe92..3b86eeaf084f 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -7039,7 +7039,7 @@ static int __access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> void *maddr;
> struct folio *folio;
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;
> - struct page *page = get_user_page_vma_remote(mm, addr,
> + struct page *page = get_user_page_lookup_vma(mm, addr,
> gup_flags, &vma);
>
> if (IS_ERR(page)) {
> @@ -7167,7 +7167,7 @@ static int __copy_remote_vm_str(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> struct page *page;
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = NULL;
>
> - page = get_user_page_vma_remote(mm, addr, gup_flags, &vma);
> + page = get_user_page_lookup_vma(mm, addr, gup_flags, &vma);
> if (IS_ERR(page)) {
> /*
> * Treat as a total failure for now until we decide how
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 1c77d5dc06e9..b36f2e219b8f 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ struct page *make_device_exclusive(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> * (non-device-exclusive) PTE and issue a MMU_NOTIFY_EXCLUSIVE.
> */
> retry:
> - page = get_user_page_vma_remote(mm, addr,
> + page = get_user_page_lookup_vma(mm, addr,
> FOLL_GET | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_SPLIT_PMD,
> &vma);
> if (IS_ERR(page))
> --
> 2.53.0-Meta
>
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