Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:07:44 +0800 linmiaohe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The vm_flags may be changed after call_mmap() because drivers may set 
>> some flags for their own purpose. As a result, we failed to merge the 
>> adjacent vma due to the different vm_flags as userspace can't pass in the 
>> same one.
>> Try to merge vma after call_mmap() to fix this issue.
>
>Which drivers do this?

I searched the code and I see many drivers change the vm_flags, such as 
aio_ring_mmap set
VM_DONTEXPAND and amdgpu_mmap , binder_mmap also change the vm_flags , and so 
on...

Thanks.

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