[PATCH 1/3] mm: change vm_get_page_prot() to accept vm_flags_t argument

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Jun 24 01:17:22 AEST 2025


On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 08:42:52PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> We abstract the type of the VMA flags to vm_flags_t, however in may places
> it is simply assumed this is unsigned long, which is simply incorrect.
> 
> At the moment this is simply an incongruity, however in future we plan to
> change this type and therefore this change is a critical requirement for
> doing so.
> 
> Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes at oracle.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/mmap.c                       | 2 +-

For arm64:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>


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