Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: update core kernel code to use vm_flags_t consistently

[Zi Yan]

On 18 Jun 2025, at 15:42, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:

> The core kernel code is currently very inconsistent in its use of
> vm_flags_t vs. unsigned long. This prevents us from changing the type of
> vm_flags_t in the future and is simply not correct, so correct this.
>
> While this results in rather a lot of churn, it is a critical pre-requisite
> for a future planned change to VMA flag type.
>
> Additionally, update VMA userland tests to account for the changes.
>
> To make review easier and to break things into smaller parts, driver and
> architecture-specific changes is left for a subsequent commit.
>
> The code has been adjusted to cascade the changes across all calling code
> as far as is needed.
>
> We will adjust architecture-specific and driver code in a subsequent patch.
>
> Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/exec.c                        |   2 +-
>  fs/userfaultfd.c                 |   2 +-
>  include/linux/coredump.h         |   2 +-
>  include/linux/huge_mm.h          |  12 +-
>  include/linux/khugepaged.h       |   4 +-
>  include/linux/ksm.h              |   4 +-
>  include/linux/memfd.h            |   4 +-
>  include/linux/mm.h               |   6 +-
>  include/linux/mm_types.h         |   2 +-
>  include/linux/mman.h             |   4 +-
>  include/linux/rmap.h             |   4 +-
>  include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h    |   4 +-
>  include/trace/events/fs_dax.h    |   6 +-
>  mm/debug.c                       |   2 +-
>  mm/execmem.c                     |   8 +-
>  mm/filemap.c                     |   2 +-
>  mm/gup.c                         |   2 +-
>  mm/huge_memory.c                 |   2 +-
>  mm/hugetlb.c                     |   4 +-
>  mm/internal.h                    |   4 +-
>  mm/khugepaged.c                  |   4 +-
>  mm/ksm.c                         |   2 +-
>  mm/madvise.c                     |   4 +-
>  mm/mapping_dirty_helpers.c       |   2 +-
>  mm/memfd.c                       |   8 +-
>  mm/memory.c                      |   4 +-
>  mm/mmap.c                        |  16 +-
>  mm/mprotect.c                    |   8 +-
>  mm/mremap.c                      |   2 +-
>  mm/nommu.c                       |  12 +-
>  mm/rmap.c                        |   4 +-
>  mm/shmem.c                       |   6 +-
>  mm/userfaultfd.c                 |  14 +-
>  mm/vma.c                         |  78 ++++-----
>  mm/vma.h                         |  16 +-
>  mm/vmscan.c                      |   4 +-
>  tools/testing/vma/vma.c          | 266 +++++++++++++++----------------
>  tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h |   8 +-
>  38 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 269 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>


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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi