On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 05:48:36PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > This patch establishes fields within the vm_area_struct type to store the > anonymous page offset of VMAs. > > The anonymous page offset of a VMA is equal to vma->vm_start >> PAGE_SHIFT > if they are unfaulted or were not remapped, otherwise it is equal to this > value at the point of first fault. > > Currently, anonymous folios belonging to CoW'd MAP_PRIVATE-mapped > file-backed VMAs are tracked by their file offset. By adding anonymous > offset as a property of VMAs, we can now track them by their anonymous page > offset instead. > > By tracking this, we provide the means by which to eliminate this > inconsistency, and more importantly lay the foundations for future work for > the scalable CoW anonymous rmap rework. > > This patch simply adds the fields and some simple helpers. Subsequent > patches will update mm code to make use of these fields correctly. > > The fields chosen are packed in the VMA such that, for 64-bit kernel > builds, no additional space is taken up. > > The first field is present on cacheline 0 containing key VMA fields, and > the second on cacheline 3, which contains file-backed reverse mapping > fields. > > Given the relative time spent accessing reverse mapping fields as well as > updating them, there shouldn't be any performance impact here from false > sharing. > > Update the VMA userland tests to account for this change. > > No callsites are updated yet, so no functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]>
Much clearer :], appreciate the rewording. Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <[email protected]>
