Hi Konstantin, It seems to be nice clean up to me and you are a volunteer we have been wanted for a long time. Thanks! I am one of people who really want to expand vm_flags to 64 bit but when KOSAKI tried it, Linus said his concerning, I guess you already saw that. He want to tidy vm_flags's usage up rather than expanding it. Without the discussion about that, just expanding vm_flags would make us use it up easily so that we might need more space. Readahead flags are good candidate to move into another space and arch-specific flags, I guess. Another candidate I think of is THP flag. It's just for only anonymous vma now (But I am not sure we have a plan to support it for file-backed pages in future) so we can move it to anon_vma or somewhere. I think other guys might find more somethings The point is that at least, we have to discuss about clean up current vm_flags's use cases before expanding it unconditionally. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:56:07AM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > There is good old tradition: every year somebody submit patches for extending > vma->vm_flags upto 64-bits, because there no free bits left on 32-bit systems. > > previous attempts: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/12/24 (KOSAKI Motohiro) > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/27/23 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) > https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/1/202 (Hugh Dickins) > > Here already exist special type for this: vm_flags_t, but not all code uses it. > So, before switching vm_flags_t from unsinged long to u64 we must spread > vm_flags_t everywhere and fix all possible type-casting problems. > > There is no functional changes in this patch set, > it only prepares code for vma->vm_flags converting. > > --- > > Konstantin Khlebnikov (16): > mm: introduce NR_VMA_FLAGS > mm: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/shmem: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/nommu: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/drivers: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/x86: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/arm: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/unicore32: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/ia64: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/powerpc: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/s390: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/mips: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/parisc: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm/score: use vm_flags_t for vma flags > mm: cast vm_flags_t to u64 before printing > mm: vm_flags_t strict type checking > > > arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 5 - > arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 6 + > arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 2 > arch/ia64/mm/fault.c | 9 + > arch/mips/mm/c-r3k.c | 2 > arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c | 6 - > arch/mips/mm/c-tx39.c | 2 > arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 4 - > arch/powerpc/include/asm/mman.h | 2 > arch/s390/mm/fault.c | 8 + > arch/score/mm/cache.c | 6 - > arch/sh/mm/tlbflush_64.c | 2 > arch/unicore32/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 6 + > arch/unicore32/mm/fault.c | 2 > arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 - > drivers/char/mem.c | 2 > drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c | 6 + > drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c | 6 + > drivers/media/video/omap3isp/ispqueue.h | 2 > drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c | 2 > drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 15 +- > drivers/staging/tidspbridge/core/tiomap3430.c | 13 +- > drivers/staging/tidspbridge/rmgr/drv_interface.c | 4 - > fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 > fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | 24 ++- > fs/exec.c | 2 > fs/proc/nommu.c | 3 > fs/proc/task_nommu.c | 14 +- > include/linux/backing-dev.h | 7 - > include/linux/huge_mm.h | 4 - > include/linux/ksm.h | 8 + > include/linux/mm.h | 163 +++++++++++++++------- > include/linux/mm_types.h | 11 + > include/linux/mman.h | 4 - > include/linux/rmap.h | 8 + > include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 5 - > kernel/bounds.c | 2 > kernel/events/core.c | 4 - > kernel/fork.c | 2 > kernel/sys.c | 4 - > mm/backing-dev.c | 4 + > mm/huge_memory.c | 2 > mm/ksm.c | 4 - > mm/madvise.c | 2 > mm/memory.c | 9 + > mm/mlock.c | 2 > mm/mmap.c | 36 ++--- > mm/mprotect.c | 9 + > mm/mremap.c | 2 > mm/nommu.c | 19 +-- > mm/rmap.c | 16 +- > mm/shmem.c | 54 ++++--- > mm/vmscan.c | 4 - > 53 files changed, 322 insertions(+), 224 deletions(-) > > -- > Signature > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ > Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>