Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] mm/vma: convert vm_pgprot_modify() to use vma_flags_t and rename
From: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
Date: Wed Jul 22 2026 - 10:43:16 EST
On 7/11/26 20:45, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Update vm_pgprot_modify() to use the new VMA flags type vma_flags_t, and
> rename to vma_pgprot_modify() accordingly.
>
> This is part of the ongoing work to convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t, in
> order to eliminate the arbitrary limit of the number of bits in a system
> word on available VMA flags.
>
> Update VMA userland tests accordingly, updating vma_set_page_prot() to no
> longer inline vma_pgprot_modify(), rather we can simply define
> vma_pgprot_modify() as a static inline function and the tests will pick it
> up from vma.h.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@xxxxxxxxxx>