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Commit 6cb4d9a2 authored by Anshuman Khandual's avatar Anshuman Khandual Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS



There are many places where all basic VMA access flags (read, write,
exec) are initialized or checked against as a group.  One such example
is during page fault.  Existing vma_is_accessible() wrapper already
creates the notion of VMA accessibility as a group access permissions.

Hence lets just create VM_ACCESS_FLAGS (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC) which
will not only reduce code duplication but also extend the VMA
accessibility concept in general.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Springer <rspringer@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1583391014-8170-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c62da0c3
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