[PATCH v3 2/7] mm: introduce vma->vm_flags wrapper functions

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu Jan 26 11:28:10 AEDT 2023


On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:35:49 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com> wrote:

> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -491,7 +491,15 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
>  	 * See vmf_insert_mixed_prot() for discussion.
>  	 */
>  	pgprot_t vm_page_prot;
> -	unsigned long vm_flags;		/* Flags, see mm.h. */
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Flags, see mm.h.
> +	 * To modify use {init|reset|set|clear|mod}_vm_flags() functions.
> +	 */
> +	union {
> +		const vm_flags_t vm_flags;
> +		vm_flags_t __private __vm_flags;
> +	};

Typically when making a change like this we'll rename the affected
field/variable/function/etc.  This will reliably and deliberately break
unconverted usage sites.

This const trick will get us partway there, by breaking setters.  But
renaming it will break both setters and getters.



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