From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
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Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] mm/vma: remove __private sparse decoration from vma_flags_t
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 17:02:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3qrulshyfrqkpihfb7prx2xyp5sn37aobccihw6r7vwwj2zm2@fh56mijhhk3c> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64fa89f416f22a60ae74cfff8fd565e7677be192.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 04:06:10PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> We need to pass around these values and access them in a way that sparse
> does not allow, as __private implies noderef, i.e. disallowing dereference
> of the value, which manifests as sparse warnings even when passed around
> benignly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
--
Pedro
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-06 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-22 16:06 [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] mm/vma: remove __private sparse decoration from vma_flags_t Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-06 17:02 ` Pedro Falcato [this message]
2026-02-09 18:38 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] mm: rename vma_flag_test/set_atomic() to vma_test/set_atomic_flag() Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-06 17:04 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-02-09 18:40 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-06 17:14 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-02-09 14:02 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 18:44 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()] Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 18:45 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-06 17:35 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-02-09 14:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 18:53 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 19:03 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] mm: update secretmem " Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-28 12:08 ` Chris Mason
2026-01-28 16:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-28 16:44 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 19:06 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-23 6:20 ` Baolin Wang
2026-01-23 12:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-23 7:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-01-23 12:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-23 12:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-25 14:50 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-02-09 19:13 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users " Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-22 23:31 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-01-23 7:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-02-06 17:46 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-02-06 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2026-02-06 20:01 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 19:27 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-06 17:49 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-02-09 19:32 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 19:58 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-02-10 17:44 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-27 10:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 20:18 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:06 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-02-09 20:23 ` Liam R. Howlett
2026-01-22 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them Andrew Morton
2026-01-27 13:53 ` Yury Norov
2026-01-27 14:40 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-27 21:36 ` Yury Norov
2026-01-28 9:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-28 15:50 ` Pedro Falcato
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