linux/include
Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) e650bb30ca mm: rename VMA flag helpers to be more readable
Patch series "mm: vma flag tweaks".

The ongoing work around introducing non-system word VMA flags has
introduced a number of helper functions and macros to make life easier
when working with these flags and to make conversions from the legacy use
of VM_xxx flags more straightforward.

This series improves these to reduce confusion as to what they do and to
improve consistency and readability.

Firstly the series renames vma_flags_test() to vma_flags_test_any() to
make it abundantly clear that this function tests whether any of the flags
are set (as opposed to vma_flags_test_all()).

It then renames vma_desc_test_flags() to vma_desc_test_any() for the same
reason.  Note that we drop the 'flags' suffix here, as
vma_desc_test_any_flags() would be cumbersome and 'test' implies a flag
test.

Similarly, we rename vma_test_all_flags() to vma_test_all() for
consistency.

Next, we have a couple of instances (erofs, zonefs) where we are now
testing for vma_desc_test_any(desc, VMA_SHARED_BIT) &&
vma_desc_test_any(desc, VMA_MAYWRITE_BIT).

This is silly, so this series introduces vma_desc_test_all() so these
callers can instead invoke vma_desc_test_all(desc, VMA_SHARED_BIT,
VMA_MAYWRITE_BIT).

We then observe that quite a few instances of vma_flags_test_any() and
vma_desc_test_any() are in fact only testing against a single flag.

Using the _any() variant here is just confusing - 'any' of single item
reads strangely and is liable to cause confusion.

So in these instances the series reintroduces vma_flags_test() and
vma_desc_test() as helpers which test against a single flag.

The fact that vma_flags_t is a struct and that vma_flag_t utilises sparse
to avoid confusion with vm_flags_t makes it impossible for a user to
misuse these helpers without it getting flagged somewhere.

The series also updates __mk_vma_flags() and functions invoked by it to
explicitly mark them always inline to match expectation and to be
consistent with other VMA flag helpers.

It also renames vma_flag_set() to vma_flags_set_flag() (a function only
used by __mk_vma_flags()) to be consistent with other VMA flag helpers.

Finally it updates the VMA tests for each of these changes, and introduces
explicit tests for vma_flags_test() and vma_desc_test() to assert that
they behave as expected.


This patch (of 6):

On reflection, it's confusing to have vma_flags_test() and
vma_desc_test_flags() test whether any comma-separated VMA flag bit is
set, while also having vma_flags_test_all() and vma_test_all_flags()
separately test whether all flags are set.

Firstly, rename vma_flags_test() to vma_flags_test_any() to eliminate this
confusion.

Secondly, since the VMA descriptor flag functions are becoming rather
cumbersome, prefer vma_desc_test*() to vma_desc_test_flags*(), and also
rename vma_desc_test_flags() to vma_desc_test_any().

Finally, rename vma_test_all_flags() to vma_test_all() to keep the
VMA-specific helper consistent with the VMA descriptor naming convention
and to help avoid confusion vs.  vma_flags_test_all().

While we're here, also update whitespace to be consistent in helper
functions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1772704455.git.ljs@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0f9cb3c511c478344fac0b3b3b0300bb95be95e9.1772704455.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Chatre, Reinette <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Cc: Damien Le Maol <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>
Cc: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@paragon-software.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Sandeep Dhavale <dhavale@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Yue Hu <zbestahu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-05 13:53:18 -07:00
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