[PATCH 13/41] mm: introduce vma->vm_flags modifier functions

Davidlohr Bueso dave at stgolabs.net
Wed Jan 11 07:47:26 PST 2023


On Mon, 09 Jan 2023, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:

>To keep vma locking correctness when vm_flags are modified, add modifier
>functions to be used whenever flags are updated.

How about moving this patch and the ones that follow out of this series,
into a preliminary patchset? It would reduce the amount of noise in the
per-vma lock changes, which would then only be adding the needed
vma_write_lock()ing.

Thanks,
Davidlohr



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