linux/include
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
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acpi mailbox/pcc: support mailbox management of the shared buffer 2025-08-07 23:49:56 -05:00
asm-generic Deferred unwind changes for 6.17 2025-08-01 09:46:24 -07:00
clocksource
crypto This push fixes a regression that breaks hmac(sha3-224-s390). 2025-08-09 07:26:19 +03:00
cxl
drm drm/gpuvm: fix various typos in .c and .h gpuvm file 2025-08-25 21:48:50 +02:00
dt-bindings Pin control changes for v6.17 2025-08-02 12:07:09 -07:00
hyperv
keys
kunit linux_kselftest-kunit-6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:43:10 -07:00
kvm KVM/arm64 changes for 6.17, round #1 2025-07-29 12:27:40 -04:00
linux mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t 2025-09-13 16:55:07 -07:00
math-emu
media
memory
misc
net net: rose: convert 'use' field to refcount_t 2025-08-27 07:43:08 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rv rv: Retry when da monitor detects race conditions 2025-07-28 16:47:34 -04:00
scsi Merge patch series "libsas cleanups" 2025-07-25 09:05:23 -04:00
soc This is the usual collection of primarily clk driver updates. The big part of 2025-07-31 13:36:27 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.17 2025-08-21 09:02:28 +02:00
target
trace mm: introduce memdesc_flags_t 2025-09-13 16:55:07 -07:00
uapi mm/huge_memory: respect MADV_COLLAPSE with PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED 2025-09-13 16:55:05 -07:00
ufs
vdso
video
xen Significant patch series in this pull request: 2025-08-03 16:23:09 -07:00
Kbuild