Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] mm: replace vma->vm_flags direct modifications with modifier calls

Michal Hocko
2023-01-25T09:30:53Z

On Wed 25-01-23 00:38:48, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Replace direct modifications to vma->vm_flags with calls to modifier
> functions to be able to track flag changes and to keep vma locking
> correctness.

Is this a manual (git grep) based work or have you used Coccinele for
the patch generation?

My potentially incomplete check
$ git grep ">[[:space:]]*vm_flags[[:space:]]*[&|^]="

shows that nothing should be left after this. There is still quite a lot
of direct checks of the flags (more than 600). Maybe it would be good to
make flags accessible only via accessors which would also prevent any
future direct setting of those flags in uncontrolled way as well.

Anyway
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs