Re: mm: convert vma->vm_flags to 64bit

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 18:07:51 EST


On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:06 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > After next year? All developers don't have to ignore compiler warnings!
>
> At least add vm_flags_t which is sparse-checked, just like we do with gfp_t.
>
> VM_SAO is ppc64 only, so it could be moved into high part,
> freeing 1 bit?

My original series did use a type, I don't know what that was dropped,
it made conversion easier imho.

Cheers,
Ben.


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