Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] proc/task_mmu: remove unnecessary helpers

From: Suren Baghdasaryan

Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 15:01:13 EST


On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 10:17 AM David Hildenbrand (Arm)
<david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/9/26 19:13, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 10:06 AM David Hildenbrand (Arm)
> > <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/7/26 08:39, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> >>> When per-vma locks were behind a config option, a number of helper
> >>> functions were needed to simplify the locking code. Now that these
> >>> locks are universally available, we can do a little cleanup.
> >>> Remove lock_vma_range(), unlock_vma_range(), query_vma_setup(),
> >>> query_vma_teardown() helpers.
> >>>
> >>> No functional change intended.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>
> >> As Usama says, this could get picked up early independent of the rest (maybe
> >> even as part of the other patch set)
> >
> > I can post the 3 cleanup patches separately from the one that switches
> > to using per-VMA locks if that's preferable. One downside: I'll have
> > to wait until the cleanups are picked up before posting the last
> > patch, as it depends on these cleanups. Please let me know if I should
> > split them anyway; otherwise, will keep v3 as a single patchset.
>
> Let's keep it as is. We can reconsider if we realize that the other patches get
> stuck.

Ack. Thanks!

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David