Andrew - FYI there's nothing to worry about here, the type remains
precisely the same, and I'll send a patch to fix this trivial issue so when
later this type changes vmalloc will be uaffected.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 09:15:51AM +0900, Harry Yoo wrote:

[Adding Uladzislau to Cc]

Ulad - could we PLEASE get rid of 'vm_flags' in vmalloc? It's the precise
same name and (currently) type as vma->vm_flags and is already the source
of confusion.

Hi Lorenzo, just wanted to clarify one thing.

You know, many people acked and reviewed it, which makes me wonder if
I'm misunderstanding something... but it wouldn't hurt to check, right?

Thanks for report.

Yes this is a mistake, the naming caught my mechanical changes, I tried to
check everything but given scope of the change and unfortunate vmalloc
naming I made a mistake.

Net result currently is _absolutely no delta_ due to vm_flags_t == unsigned
long. So there's nothing urgent here. But will send a patch to fix so it
doesn't get caught in the 'part 2' changes I plan for this in 6.18.

Fact others didn't notice underlines the fact this naming needs fixing in
vmalloc.

Thanks, Lorenzo