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Patch series "further cleanup of vma_merge()", v2. Following on from Vlastimil Babka's patch series "cleanup vma_merge() and improve mergeability tests" which was in turn based on Liam's prior cleanups, this patch series introduces changes discussed in review of Vlastimil's series and goes further in attempting to make the logic as clear as possible. Nearly all of this should have absolutely no functional impact, however it does add a singular VM_WARN_ON() case. With many thanks to Vernon for helping kick start the discussion around simplification - abstract use of vma did indeed turn out not to be necessary - and to Liam for his excellent suggestions which greatly simplified things. This patch (of 4): Previously the ASCII diagram above vma_merge() and the accompanying variable naming was rather confusing, however recent efforts by Liam Howlett and Vlastimil Babka have significantly improved matters. This patch goes a little further - replacing 'X' with 'N' which feels a lot more natural and replacing what was 'N' with 'C' which stands for 'concurrent' VMA. No word quite describes a VMA that has coincident start as the input span, concurrent, abbreviated to 'curr' (and which can be thought of also as 'current') however fits intuitions well alongside prev and next. This has no functional impact. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1679431180.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6001e08fa7e119470cbb1d2b6275ad8d742ff9a7.1679431180.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.