Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: change vm_get_page_prot() to accept vm_flags_t argument

Zi Yan
2025-06-23T14:32:13Z

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

> We abstract the type of the VMA flags to vm_flags_t, however in may places
> it is simply assumed this is unsigned long, which is simply incorrect.
>
> At the moment this is simply an incongruity, however in future we plan to
> change this type and therefore this change is a critical requirement for
> doing so.
>
> Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pkeys.h | 3 ++-
> arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/mm/pgprot.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++--
> include/linux/pgtable.h | 2 +-
> tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h | 2 +-
> 7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
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Best Regards,
Yan, Zi