[PATCH 13/41] mm: introduce vma->vm_flags modifier functions

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 8:13 AM Davidlohr Bueso <dave at stgolabs.net> wrote:
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> On Mon, 09 Jan 2023, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
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> >To keep vma locking correctness when vm_flags are modified, add modifier
> >functions to be used whenever flags are updated.
>
> How about moving this patch and the ones that follow out of this series,
> into a preliminary patchset? It would reduce the amount of noise in the
> per-vma lock changes, which would then only be adding the needed
> vma_write_lock()ing.

How about moving those prerequisite patches to the beginning of the
patchset (before maple_tree RCU changes)? I feel like they do belong
in the patchset because as a standalone patchset it would be unclear
why I'm adding all these accessor functions and introducing this
churn. Would that be acceptable?

>
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr
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