[PATCH 08/13] mm: convert miscellaneous VMA flag tests to use vma_flags_t

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

Date: Thu Nov 05 2026 - 16:39:24 EST


Replace use of the legacy vm_flags_t flags with vma_flags_t values in the
remaining straightforward VMA flag tests scattered throughout core mm, HMM
(and its test module), DAMON and the OOM reaper.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 2 +-
lib/test_hmm.c | 4 ++--
mm/damon/vaddr.c | 2 +-
mm/hmm.c | 6 +++---
mm/internal.h | 2 +-
mm/mempolicy.c | 4 ++--
mm/mmap_lock.c | 4 ++--
mm/msync.c | 4 ++--
mm/oom_kill.c | 4 ++--
mm/pagewalk.c | 2 +-
mm/vma.h | 4 ++--
11 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
index ab69b9930893..da04d81a819c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ static inline pte_marker copy_pte_marker(

static inline bool vma_has_recency(const struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_SEQ_READ | VM_RAND_READ))
+ if (vma_test_any(vma, VMA_SEQ_READ_BIT, VMA_RAND_READ_BIT))
return false;

if (vma->vm_file && (vma->vm_file->f_mode & FMODE_NOREUSE))
diff --git a/lib/test_hmm.c b/lib/test_hmm.c
index b409c42bfe6f..d7702d99ac9b 100644
--- a/lib/test_hmm.c
+++ b/lib/test_hmm.c
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ static int dmirror_migrate_to_system(struct dmirror *dmirror,
mmap_read_lock(mm);
for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) {
vma = vma_lookup(mm, addr);
- if (!vma || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)) {
+ if (!vma || !vma_test(vma, VMA_READ_BIT)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
@@ -1320,7 +1320,7 @@ static int dmirror_migrate_to_device(struct dmirror *dmirror,
mmap_read_lock(mm);
for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) {
vma = vma_lookup(mm, addr);
- if (!vma || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)) {
+ if (!vma || !vma_test(vma, VMA_READ_BIT)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
diff --git a/mm/damon/vaddr.c b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
index b549496ea8e2..9a43f7428142 100644
--- a/mm/damon/vaddr.c
+++ b/mm/damon/vaddr.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static void damon_va_walk_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
goto lock_mmap;
}

- if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)) {
+ if (!vma_test(vma, VMA_PFNMAP_BIT)) {
ops->walk_lock = PGWALK_VMA_RDLOCK_VERIFY;
walk_page_range_vma(vma, start, end, ops, private);
}
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 2f1e98c6b644..058d0b48399a 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -595,8 +595,8 @@ static int hmm_vma_walk_test(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
struct hmm_range *range = hmm_vma_walk->range;
struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;

- if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)) &&
- vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)
+ if (!vma_test_any(vma, VMA_IO_BIT, VMA_PFNMAP_BIT) &&
+ vma_test(vma, VMA_READ_BIT))
return 0;

/*
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static int hmm_do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
return -EFAULT;

if (required_fault & HMM_NEED_WRITE_FAULT) {
- if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
+ if (!vma_test(vma, VMA_WRITE_BIT))
return -EPERM;
fault_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
}
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 8b1263e81054..cbb205f06097 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1249,7 +1249,7 @@ size_t splice_folio_into_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,

static inline bool vma_is_single_threaded_private(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
+ if (vma_test(vma, VMA_SHARED_BIT))
return false;

return atomic_read(&vma->vm_mm->mm_users) == 1;
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 80c693c6d693..31d42bcad529 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2015,7 +2015,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(get_mempolicy, int __user *, policy,

bool vma_migratable(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))
+ if (vma_test_any(vma, VMA_IO_BIT, VMA_PFNMAP_BIT))
return false;

/*
@@ -2565,7 +2565,7 @@ struct folio *vma_alloc_folio_noprof(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct
pgoff_t ilx;
struct folio *folio;

- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE)
+ if (vma_test_single_mask(vma, VMA_DROPPABLE))
gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN;

pol = get_vma_policy(vma, addr, order, &ilx);
diff --git a/mm/mmap_lock.c b/mm/mmap_lock.c
index 834bbf86e004..1b0560a4dfcd 100644
--- a/mm/mmap_lock.c
+++ b/mm/mmap_lock.c
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *lock_mm_and_find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
* Well, dang. We might still be successful, but only
* if we can extend a vma to do so.
*/
- if (!vma || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)) {
+ if (!vma || !vma_test(vma, VMA_GROWSDOWN_BIT)) {
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
return NULL;
}
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct *lock_mm_and_find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm,
goto fail;
if (vma->vm_start <= addr)
goto success;
- if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN))
+ if (!vma_test(vma, VMA_GROWSDOWN_BIT))
goto fail;
}

diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
index 90b491a27a14..953efa1738c5 100644
--- a/mm/msync.c
+++ b/mm/msync.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
}
/* Here vma->vm_start <= start < vma->vm_end. */
if ((flags & MS_INVALIDATE) &&
- (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) {
+ vma_test(vma, VMA_LOCKED_BIT)) {
error = -EBUSY;
goto out_unlock;
}
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(msync, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
fend = fstart + (min(end, vma->vm_end) - start) - 1;
start = vma->vm_end;
if ((flags & MS_SYNC) && file &&
- (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
+ vma_test(vma, VMA_SHARED_BIT)) {
get_file(file);
mmap_read_unlock(mm);
error = vfs_fsync_range(file, fstart, fend, 1);
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 5d48bd862c27..91b11299cb5d 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
* of the address space.
*/
mas_for_each_rev(&mas, vma, 0) {
- if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_HUGETLB|VM_PFNMAP))
+ if (vma_test_any(vma, VMA_HUGETLB_BIT, VMA_PFNMAP_BIT))
continue;

/*
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static bool __oom_reap_task_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
* we do not want to block exit_mmap by keeping mm ref
* count elevated without a good reason.
*/
- if (vma_is_anonymous(vma) || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
+ if (vma_is_anonymous(vma) || !vma_test(vma, VMA_SHARED_BIT)) {
if (zap_vma_for_reaping(vma))
ret = false;
}
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index e6493bbe6919..41e19f544493 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static int walk_page_test(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
* define their ->pte_hole() callbacks, so let's delegate them to handle
* vma(VM_PFNMAP).
*/
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) {
+ if (vma_test(vma, VMA_PFNMAP_BIT)) {
int err = 1;
if (ops->pte_hole)
err = ops->pte_hole(start, end, -1, walk);
diff --git a/mm/vma.h b/mm/vma.h
index 3fc3b47a954b..201dbfe3d7f8 100644
--- a/mm/vma.h
+++ b/mm/vma.h
@@ -597,9 +597,9 @@ static inline bool vma_wants_manual_pte_write_upgrade(struct vm_area_struct *vma
* private mappings, that's always the case when we have write
* permissions as we properly have to handle COW.
*/
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
+ if (vma_test(vma, VMA_SHARED_BIT))
return vma_wants_writenotify(vma, vma->vm_page_prot);
- return !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE);
+ return vma_test(vma, VMA_WRITE_BIT);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_MMU

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