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mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
authorLorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:06:12 +0000 (16:06 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:42:57 +0000 (15:42 -0800)
commit1c628004e0de0383a5a56facdb0bf28a54441b5f
treeb037cb5788b60072d35405ddf2826cf05f03030b
parente388d31257eddc1077a02ed786513d606c9e3266
mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper

This patch introduces the mk_vma_flags() macro helper to allow easy
manipulation of VMA flags utilising the new bitmap representation
implemented of VMA flags defined by the vma_flags_t type.

It is a variadic macro which provides a bitwise-or'd representation of all
of each individual VMA flag specified.

Note that, while we maintain VM_xxx flags for backwards compatibility
until the conversion is complete, we define VMA flags of type vma_flag_t
using VMA_xxx_BIT to avoid confusing the two.

This helper macro therefore can be used thusly:

vma_flags_t flags = mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT);

Testing has demonstrated that the compiler optimises this code such that
it generates the same assembly utilising this macro as it does if the
flags were specified manually, for instance:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
return mk_vma_flags(VMA_READ_BIT, VMA_WRITE_BIT, VMA_EXEC_BIT);
}

Generates the same code as:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
vma_flags_t flags;

vma_flags_clear_all(&flags);
vma_flag_set(&flags, VMA_READ_BIT);
vma_flag_set(&flags, VMA_WRITE_BIT);
vma_flag_set(&flags, VMA_EXEC_BIT);

return flags;
}

And:

vma_flags_t get_flags(void)
{
vma_flags_t flags;
unsigned long *bitmap = ACCESS_PRIVATE(&flags, __vma_flags);

*bitmap = 1UL << (__force int)VMA_READ_BIT;
*bitmap |= 1UL << (__force int)VMA_WRITE_BIT;
*bitmap |= 1UL << (__force int)VMA_EXEC_BIT;

return flags;
}

That is:

get_flags:
        movl    $7, %eax
        ret

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fde00df6ff7fb8c4b42cc0defa5a4924c7a1943a.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h