Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: declare VMA flags by bit

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 09:55:21AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 09:07:19AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > > >  fs/proc/task_mmu.c               |   4 +-
> > > >  include/linux/mm.h               | 286 +++++++++++++++++---------
> > > >  tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h | 341 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> > >
> > > Maybe take the moment to put them in some vma_flags.h and then can
> > > that be included from tools/testing to avoid this copying??
> >
> > It sucks to have this copy/paste yeah. The problem is to make the VMA
> > userland testing work, we intentionally isolate vma.h/vma.c dependencies
> > into vma_internal.h in mm/ and also do the same in the userland component,
> > so we can #include vma.c/h in the userland code.
> >
> > So we'd have to have a strict requirement that vma_flags.h doesn't import
> > any other headers or at least none which aren't substituted somehow in the
> > tools/include directory.
>
> I think that's fine, much better than copying it like this..

Ack will give it a go!

>
> > The issue is people might quite reasonably update include/linux/vma_flags.h
> > to do more later and then break all of the VMA userland testing...
>
> If only the selftest build system wasn't such a PITA maybe more people
> would run it :(

This isn't a selftest thing :)

So it's literally:

$ cd tools/testing/vma
$ make && ./vma

>
> Jason

Cheers, Lorenzo