From: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 05/13] mm: prefer mm->def_vma_flags in mm logic
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:45:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260711-b4-vma-flags-mm-v2-5-0fa2357d5431@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260711-b4-vma-flags-mm-v2-0-0fa2357d5431@kernel.org>
Currently mm->def_flags (of type vm_flags_t) is union'd with
mm->def_vma_flags (of type vma_flags_t).
As part of the effort to convert vm_flags_t usage to vma_flags_t (in order
to no longer be arbitrarily limited to a system word size for VMA flags),
prefer mm->def_vma_flags to mm->def_flags throughout the mm logic.
We update dump_mm() to use the %*pb format which means we make no
assumption about the number of VMA flag bits on output when outputting
default VMA flags.
No functional change intended.
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
---
mm/debug.c | 5 +++--
mm/mlock.c | 13 +++++++------
mm/mmap.c | 11 ++++++-----
mm/vma.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index 497654b36f1a..9a0297b3988d 100644
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
"numa_next_scan %lu numa_scan_offset %lu numa_scan_seq %d\n"
#endif
"tlb_flush_pending %d\n"
- "def_flags: %#lx(%pGv)\n",
+ "def_flags: %*pb(%pGv)\n",
mm, mm->task_size,
mm->mmap_base, mm->mmap_legacy_base,
@@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
mm->numa_next_scan, mm->numa_scan_offset, mm->numa_scan_seq,
#endif
atomic_read(&mm->tlb_flush_pending),
- mm->def_flags, &mm->def_flags
+ NUM_VMA_FLAG_BITS, mm->def_vma_flags.__vma_flags,
+ &mm->def_vma_flags
);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dump_mm);
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index 97e49038d8d3..34ffa954006f 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -699,26 +699,27 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(munlock, unsigned long, start, size_t, len)
/*
* Take the MCL_* flags passed into mlockall (or 0 if called from munlockall)
- * and translate into the appropriate modifications to mm->def_flags and/or the
- * flags for all current VMAs.
+ * and translate into the appropriate modifications to mm->def_vma_flags and/or
+ * the flags for all current VMAs.
*
* There are a couple of subtleties with this. If mlockall() is called multiple
* times with different flags, the values do not necessarily stack. If mlockall
* is called once including the MCL_FUTURE flag and then a second time without
- * it, VM_LOCKED and VM_LOCKONFAULT will be cleared from mm->def_flags.
+ * it, VM_LOCKED and VM_LOCKONFAULT will be cleared from mm->def_vma_flags.
*/
static int apply_mlockall_flags(int flags)
{
VMA_ITERATOR(vmi, current->mm, 0);
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma, *prev = NULL;
vm_flags_t to_add = 0;
- current->mm->def_flags &= ~VM_LOCKED_MASK;
+ vma_flags_clear_mask(&mm->def_vma_flags, VMA_LOCKED_MASK);
if (flags & MCL_FUTURE) {
- current->mm->def_flags |= VM_LOCKED;
+ vma_flags_set(&mm->def_vma_flags, VMA_LOCKED_BIT);
if (flags & MCL_ONFAULT)
- current->mm->def_flags |= VM_LOCKONFAULT;
+ vma_flags_set(&mm->def_vma_flags, VMA_LOCKONFAULT_BIT);
if (!(flags & MCL_CURRENT))
goto out;
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 39d33f3a55c2..ae9a5018e20e 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -102,15 +102,16 @@ void vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
*/
static int check_brk_limits(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
{
+ const struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+ const bool is_def_locked =
+ vma_flags_test(&mm->def_vma_flags, VMA_LOCKED_BIT);
unsigned long mapped_addr;
mapped_addr = get_unmapped_area(NULL, addr, len, 0, MAP_FIXED);
if (IS_ERR_VALUE(mapped_addr))
return mapped_addr;
- return mlock_future_ok(current->mm,
- current->mm->def_flags & VM_LOCKED, len)
- ? 0 : -EAGAIN;
+ return mlock_future_ok(mm, is_def_locked, len) ? 0 : -EAGAIN;
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk)
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(brk, unsigned long, brk)
goto out;
mm->brk = brk;
- if (mm->def_flags & VM_LOCKED)
+ if (vma_flags_test(&mm->def_vma_flags, VMA_LOCKED_BIT))
populate = true;
success:
@@ -1247,7 +1248,7 @@ int vm_brk_flags(unsigned long addr, unsigned long request, bool is_exec)
vma = vma_prev(&vmi);
ret = do_brk_flags(&vmi, vma, addr, len, vma_flags);
- populate = ((mm->def_flags & VM_LOCKED) != 0);
+ populate = vma_flags_test(&mm->def_vma_flags, VMA_LOCKED_BIT);
mmap_write_unlock(mm);
userfaultfd_unmap_complete(mm, &uf);
if (populate && !ret)
diff --git a/mm/vma.c b/mm/vma.c
index 70b08c76ea2f..1f443d979a7d 100644
--- a/mm/vma.c
+++ b/mm/vma.c
@@ -3426,7 +3426,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *__install_special_mapping(
if (unlikely(vma == NULL))
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- vm_flags |= mm->def_flags | VM_DONTEXPAND;
+ vm_flags |= vma_flags_to_legacy(mm->def_vma_flags) | VM_DONTEXPAND;
if (pgtable_supports_soft_dirty())
vm_flags |= VM_SOFTDIRTY;
vm_flags_init(vma, vm_flags & ~VM_LOCKED_MASK);
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-11 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-11 18:44 [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] mm: introduce vma_flags_can_grow() and vma_can_grow() Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:44 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] mm/vma: update do_mmap() to use vma_flags_t Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] mm: convert __get_unmapped_area() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] mm: update generic_get_unmapped_area[_topdown]() " Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] mm/vma: convert vm_pgprot_modify() to use vma_flags_t and rename Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] mm/vma: rename vma_get_page_prot to vma_flags_to_page_prot Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] mm/vma: update create_init_stack_vma() to use vma_flags_t Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] mm/vma: convert miscellaneous uses of VMA flags in core mm Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] mm/mlock: convert mlock code to use vma_flags_t Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] mm/mprotect: convert mprotect " Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-14 2:46 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-11 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] mm/mremap: convert mremap " Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-14 2:25 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t Andrew Morton
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