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

Catalin Marinas
2025-06-23T15:17:33Z

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 08:42:52PM +0100, 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 +-

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>