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

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 5:58 AM Mel Gorman <mgorman at techsingularity.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 03:35:49PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > vm_flags are among VMA attributes which affect decisions like VMA merging
> > and splitting. Therefore all vm_flags modifications are performed after
> > taking exclusive mmap_lock to prevent vm_flags updates racing with such
> > operations. Introduce modifier functions for vm_flags to be used whenever
> > flags are updated. This way we can better check and control correct
> > locking behavior during these updates.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
>
> With or without the suggested rename;
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> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at techsingularity.net>

Thanks! I'll make the renames and repost the patchset.
vm_flags_init(), vm_flags_reset(), etc. sounds like a good naming for
this.

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