linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: don't access vm

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Message-ID: <20110526184402.GA2453@p183.telecom.by>
Date:	Thu, 26 May 2011 21:44:02 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hughd@...gle.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:53:34AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 2011/5/26 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>:
> > The type of vma->vm_flags is 'unsigned long'. Neither 'int' nor
> > 'unsigned int'. This patch fixes such misuse.
> 
> I applied this, except I also just made the executive decision to
> replace things with "vm_flags_t" after all.

Woo-hoo!

Why it is marked __nocast and not __bitwise__ like gfp_t?
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