ksm: remove VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS

KSM originally stood for Kernel Shared Memory: but the kernel has long
supported shared memory, and VM_SHARED and VM_MAYSHARE vmas, and KSM is
something else.  So we switched to saying "merge" instead of "share".

But Chris Wright points out that this is confusing where mmap.c merges
adjacent vmas: most especially in the name VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS, used by
is_mergeable_vma() to let vmas be merged despite flags being different.

Call it VMA_MERGE_DESPITE_FLAGS?  Perhaps, but at present it consists
only of VM_CAN_NONLINEAR: so for now it's clearer on all sides to use
that directly, with a comment on it in is_mergeable_vma().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index ffd6c6c9bcf4..22dff49d579e 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -657,9 +657,6 @@ again:			remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end);
         validate_mm(mm);
 }
 
-/* Flags that can be inherited from an existing mapping when merging */
-#define VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS (VM_CAN_NONLINEAR)
-
 /*
  * If the vma has a ->close operation then the driver probably needs to release
  * per-vma resources, so we don't attempt to merge those.
@@ -667,7 +664,8 @@ again:			remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end);
 static inline int is_mergeable_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                         struct file *file, unsigned long vm_flags)
 {
-        if ((vma->vm_flags ^ vm_flags) & ~VM_MERGEABLE_FLAGS)
+        /* VM_CAN_NONLINEAR may get set later by f_op->mmap() */
+        if ((vma->vm_flags ^ vm_flags) & ~VM_CAN_NONLINEAR)
                 return 0;
         if (vma->vm_file != file)
                 return 0;