On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 08:42:53PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > The core kernel code is currently very inconsistent in its use of > vm_flags_t vs. unsigned long. This prevents us from changing the type of > vm_flags_t in the future and is simply not correct, so correct this. > > While this results in rather a lot of churn, it is a critical pre-requisite > for a future planned change to VMA flag type. > > Additionally, update VMA userland tests to account for the changes. > > To make review easier and to break things into smaller parts, driver and > architecture-specific changes is left for a subsequent commit. > > The code has been adjusted to cascade the changes across all calling code > as far as is needed. > > We will adjust architecture-specific and driver code in a subsequent patch. > > Overall, this patch does not introduce any functional change. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@xxxxxxx> -- Pedro
