linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 3/3] mm/vma: Introduce some more VMA flag wrappers

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Message-ID: <20200310202609.GA6287@avx2>
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 23:26:09 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] mm/vma: Introduce some more VMA flag wrappers

On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 02:43:21PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 03/03/2020 12:04 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Anshuman Khandual wrote:

> >> vma_is_dontdump()
> >> vma_is_noreserve()
> >> vma_is_special()
> >> vma_is_locked()
> >> vma_is_mergeable()
> >> vma_is_softdirty()
> >> vma_is_thp()
> >> vma_is_nothp()

> > Improved readability? Not to my eyes.
> 
> As mentioned before, I dont feel strongly about patch 3/3 and will drop.

Should be "const struct vm_area_struct *" anyway.