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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 53fbef56e0 mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t
Patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t".

At some point struct page will be separated from struct slab and struct
folio.  This is a step towards that by introducing a type for the 'flags'
word of all three structures.  This gives us a certain amount of type
safety by establishing that some of these unsigned longs are different
from other unsigned longs in that they contain things like node ID,
section number and zone number in the upper bits.  That lets us have
functions that can be easily called by anyone who has a slab, folio or
page (but not easily by anyone else) to get the node or zone.

There's going to be some unusual merge problems with this as some odd bits
of the kernel decide they want to print out the flags value or something
similar by writing page->flags and now they'll need to write page->flags.f
instead.  That's most of the churn here.  Maybe we should be removing
these things from the debug output?


This patch (of 11):

Wrap the unsigned long flags in a typedef.  In upcoming patches, this will
provide a strong hint that you can't just pass a random unsigned long to
functions which take this as an argument.

[willy@infradead.org: s/flags/flags.f/ in several architectures]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aKMgPRLD-WnkPxYm@casper.infradead.org
[nicola.vetrini@gmail.com: mips: fix compilation error]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYvkpmqGr6wjBNHY=dRp71PLCoi2341JxOudi60yqaeUdg@mail.gmail.com/
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825214245.1838158-1-nicola.vetrini@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-13 16:55:07 -07:00
..
Makefile treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
cache.c mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t 2025-09-13 16:55:07 -07:00
dma.c dma-mapping: Simplify arch_setup_dma_ops() 2024-04-26 12:07:28 +02:00
extable.c ARC: uaccess: remove arc specific out-of-line handles for -Os 2023-08-17 12:40:26 -07:00
fault.c ARC: pt_regs: create seperate type for ecr 2023-08-18 10:30:47 -07:00
highmem.c arc/mm/highmem: Use generic kmap atomic implementation 2020-11-06 23:14:55 +01:00
init.c arch, mm: make releasing of memory to page allocator more explicit 2025-03-17 22:06:53 -07:00
ioremap.c mm/ioremap: pass pgprot_t to ioremap_prot() instead of unsigned long 2025-03-16 22:06:23 -07:00
mmap.c mm: make arch_get_unmapped_area() take vm_flags by default 2024-09-09 16:39:13 -07:00
tlb.c mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t 2025-09-13 16:55:07 -07:00
tlbex.S ARC: Fix typos 2024-04-01 18:40:39 -07:00