[merged mm-stable] tools-testing-vma-test-that-legacy-flag-helpers-work-correctly.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] tools-testing-vma-test-that-legacy-flag-helpers-work-correctly.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: tools/testing/vma: test that legacy flag helpers work correctly
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     tools-testing-vma-test-that-legacy-flag-helpers-work-correctly.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: tools/testing/vma: test that legacy flag helpers work correctly
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:38:29 +0000

Update the existing compare_legacy_flags() predicate function to assert
that legacy_to_vma_flags() and vma_flags_to_legacy() behave as expected.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3374e50053adb65818fde948ae3488e1e29ae8b1.1774034900.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/vma/tests/vma.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/testing/vma/tests/vma.c~tools-testing-vma-test-that-legacy-flag-helpers-work-correctly
+++ a/tools/testing/vma/tests/vma.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ static bool compare_legacy_flags(vm_flag
 	const unsigned long legacy_val = legacy_flags;
 	/* The lower word should contain the precise same value. */
 	const unsigned long flags_lower = flags.__vma_flags[0];
+	vma_flags_t converted_flags;
 #if NUM_VMA_FLAG_BITS > BITS_PER_LONG
 	int i;
 
@@ -17,6 +18,11 @@ static bool compare_legacy_flags(vm_flag
 
 	static_assert(sizeof(legacy_flags) == sizeof(unsigned long));
 
+	/* Assert that legacy flag helpers work correctly. */
+	converted_flags = legacy_to_vma_flags(legacy_flags);
+	ASSERT_FLAGS_SAME_MASK(&converted_flags, flags);
+	ASSERT_EQ(vma_flags_to_legacy(flags), legacy_flags);
+
 	return legacy_val == flags_lower;
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ljs@kernel.org are

maintainers-update-mglru-entry-to-reflect-current-status.patch
selftests-mm-add-merge-test-for-partial-msealed-range.patch