[merged mm-stable] mm-simplify-and-rename-mm-flags-function-for-clarity.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-simplify-and-rename-mm-flags-function-for-clarity.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Subject: mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:26:09 +0000

The __mm_flags_set_word() function is slightly ambiguous - we use 'set' to
refer to setting individual bits (such as in mm_flags_set()) but here we
use it to refer to overwriting the value altogether.

Rename it to __mm_flags_overwrite_word() to eliminate this ambiguity.

We additionally simplify the functions, eliminating unnecessary
bitmap_xxx() operations (the compiler would have optimised these out but
it's worth being as clear as we can be here).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a319a71d57a2af3930051c46dad954d03d55857d.1763126447.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/mm_types.h |   14 +++++---------
 kernel/fork.c            |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~mm-simplify-and-rename-mm-flags-function-for-clarity
+++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -1289,15 +1289,13 @@ struct mm_struct {
 	unsigned long cpu_bitmap[];
 };
 
-/* Set the first system word of mm flags, non-atomically. */
-static inline void __mm_flags_set_word(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long value)
+/* Copy value to the first system word of mm flags, non-atomically. */
+static inline void __mm_flags_overwrite_word(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long value)
 {
-	unsigned long *bitmap = ACCESS_PRIVATE(&mm->flags, __mm_flags);
-
-	bitmap_copy(bitmap, &value, BITS_PER_LONG);
+	*ACCESS_PRIVATE(&mm->flags, __mm_flags) = value;
 }
 
-/* Obtain a read-only view of the bitmap. */
+/* Obtain a read-only view of the mm flags bitmap. */
 static inline const unsigned long *__mm_flags_get_bitmap(const struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	return (const unsigned long *)ACCESS_PRIVATE(&mm->flags, __mm_flags);
@@ -1306,9 +1304,7 @@ static inline const unsigned long *__mm_
 /* Read the first system word of mm flags, non-atomically. */
 static inline unsigned long __mm_flags_get_word(const struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
-	const unsigned long *bitmap = __mm_flags_get_bitmap(mm);
-
-	return bitmap_read(bitmap, 0, BITS_PER_LONG);
+	return *__mm_flags_get_bitmap(mm);
 }
 
 /*
--- a/kernel/fork.c~mm-simplify-and-rename-mm-flags-function-for-clarity
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1061,10 +1061,10 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct
 	if (current->mm) {
 		unsigned long flags = __mm_flags_get_word(current->mm);
 
-		__mm_flags_set_word(mm, mmf_init_legacy_flags(flags));
+		__mm_flags_overwrite_word(mm, mmf_init_legacy_flags(flags));
 		mm->def_flags = current->mm->def_flags & VM_INIT_DEF_MASK;
 	} else {
-		__mm_flags_set_word(mm, default_dump_filter);
+		__mm_flags_overwrite_word(mm, default_dump_filter);
 		mm->def_flags = 0;
 	}
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com are

mm-correctly-handle-uffd-pte-markers.patch
mm-introduce-leaf-entry-type-and-use-to-simplify-leaf-entry-logic.patch
mm-avoid-unnecessary-uses-of-is_swap_pte.patch
mm-eliminate-is_swap_pte-when-softleaf_from_pte-suffices.patch
mm-use-leaf-entries-in-debug-pgtable-remove-is_swap_pte.patch
fs-proc-task_mmu-refactor-pagemap_pmd_range.patch
mm-avoid-unnecessary-use-of-is_swap_pmd.patch
mm-huge_memory-refactor-copy_huge_pmd-non-present-logic.patch
mm-huge_memory-refactor-change_huge_pmd-non-present-logic.patch
mm-replace-pmd_to_swp_entry-with-softleaf_from_pmd.patch
mm-introduce-pmd_is_huge-and-use-where-appropriate.patch
mm-remove-remaining-is_swap_pmd-users-and-is_swap_pmd.patch
mm-remove-non_swap_entry-and-use-softleaf-helpers-instead.patch
mm-remove-is_hugetlb_entry_.patch
mm-eliminate-further-swapops-predicates.patch
mm-replace-remaining-pte_to_swp_entry-with-softleaf_from_pte.patch