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Hallyn" , Mimi Zohar , Roberto Sassu , Dmitry Kasatkin , Eric Snowberg , Fan Wu , Stephen Smalley , Ondrej =?utf-8?B?TW9zbsOhxI1law==?= , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, damon@lists.linux.dev, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] mm: continue vma_flags_t conversion In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2026 09:50:28 +0530 Message-ID: <7bie914j.ritesh.list@gmail.com> References: <20261105-late-2026-vma-flags-v1-0-0d3cd15ab75f@kernel.org> <1c0b1368-a381-4b25-bba9-7a4f8e92b764@kernel.org> X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" writes: >> > It's not really all over the place, it's converting vm_flags_t to >> > vma_flags_t across madvise.c, which involves changing a few function >> > signatures, whose callers must be updated. >> >> Ah, yeah. What on earth does arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c do with madvise :( > > Yeah it's quite worrying that... :) > Thanks David & Lorenzo, for pointing this out. I have changed this to use ksm_disable() instead [1], which then also removes vm_flags_t usage from there. Please take a look at it whenever you can. Since it also removes the EXPORT of ksm_madvise(), I think we will anyways need an Acked-by there. (note that: looking at those changes, it seems like it should go via powerpc tree) [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/0500fbfbb98776091c89584155368610095b4dd5.1794537345.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com/ -ritesh