Re: [PATCH RESEND 08/12] mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t

Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.video.dri.devel,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm,gmane.linux.kernel.lsm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 19 Jan 2026, at 16:19, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:

> We will be shortly removing the vm_flags_t field from vm_area_desc so we
> need to update all mmap_prepare users to only use the dessc->vma_flags
> field.
>
> This patch achieves that and makes all ancillary changes required to make
> this possible.
>
> This lays the groundwork for future work to eliminate the use of vm_flags_t
> in vm_area_desc altogether and more broadly throughout the kernel.
>
> While we're here, we take the opportunity to replace VM_REMAP_FLAGS with
> VMA_REMAP_FLAGS, the vma_flags_t equivalent.
>
> No functional changes intended.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/char/mem.c       |  6 +++---
>  drivers/dax/device.c     | 10 +++++-----
>  fs/aio.c                 |  2 +-
>  fs/erofs/data.c          |  5 +++--
>  fs/ext4/file.c           |  4 ++--
>  fs/ntfs3/file.c          |  2 +-
>  fs/orangefs/file.c       |  4 ++--
>  fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c    |  2 +-
>  fs/resctrl/pseudo_lock.c |  2 +-
>  fs/romfs/mmap-nommu.c    |  2 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_file.c        |  4 ++--
>  fs/zonefs/file.c         |  3 ++-
>  include/linux/dax.h      |  4 ++--
>  include/linux/mm.h       | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>  kernel/relay.c           |  2 +-
>  mm/memory.c              | 17 ++++++++---------
>  16 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>

You missed one instance in !CONFIG_DAX:

diff --git a/include/linux/dax.h b/include/linux/dax.h
index 162c19fe478c..48d20b790a7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/dax.h
+++ b/include/linux/dax.h
@@ -111,11 +111,11 @@ static inline void set_dax_nomc(struct dax_device *dax_dev)
 static inline void set_dax_synchronous(struct dax_device *dax_dev)
 {
 }
-static inline bool daxdev_mapping_supported(vm_flags_t vm_flags,
+static inline bool daxdev_mapping_supported(vma_flags_t flags,
 					    const struct inode *inode,
 					    struct dax_device *dax_dev)
 {
-	return !(vm_flags & VM_SYNC);
+	return !vma_flags_test(flags, VMA_SYNC_BIT);
 }
 static inline size_t dax_recovery_write(struct dax_device *dax_dev,
 		pgoff_t pgoff, void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)


Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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