Lorenzo Stoakes 9ea35a25d5 mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type ...

It is useful to transition to using a bitmap for VMA flags so we can avoid
running out of flags, especially for 32-bit kernels which are constrained
to 32 flags, necessitating some features to be limited to 64-bit kernels
only.

By doing so, we remove any constraint on the number of VMA flags moving
forwards no matter the platform and can decide in future to extend beyond
64 if required.

We start by declaring an opaque types, vma_flags_t (which resembles
mm_struct flags of type mm_flags_t), setting it to precisely the same size
as vm_flags_t, and place it in union with vm_flags in the VMA declaration.

We additionally update struct vm_area_desc equivalently placing the new
opaque type in union with vm_flags.

This change therefore does not impact the size of struct vm_area_struct or
struct vm_area_desc.

In order for the change to be iterative and to avoid impacting
performance, we designate VM_xxx declared bitmap flag values as those
which must exist in the first system word of the VMA flags bitmap.

We therefore declare vma_flags_clear_all(), vma_flags_overwrite_word(),
vma_flags_overwrite_word(), vma_flags_overwrite_word_once(),
vma_flags_set_word() and vma_flags_clear_word() in order to allow us to
update the existing vm_flags_*() functions to utilise these helpers.

This is a stepping stone towards converting users to the VMA flags bitmap
and behaves precisely as before.

By doing this, we can eliminate the existing private vma->__vm_flags field
in the vma->vm_flags union and replace it with the newly introduced opaque
type vma_flags, which we call flags so we refer to the new bitmap field as
vma->flags.

We update vma_flag_[test, set]_atomic() to account for the change also.

We adapt vm_flags_reset_once() to only clear those bits above the first
system word providing write-once semantics to the first system word (which
it is presumed the caller requires - and in all current use cases this is
so).

As we currently only specify that the VMA flags bitmap size is equal to
BITS_PER_LONG number of bits, this is a noop, but is defensive in
preparation for a future change that increases this.

We additionally update the VMA userland test declarations to implement the
same changes there.

Finally, we update the rust code to reference vma->vm_flags on update
rather than vma->__vm_flags which has been removed.  This is safe for now,
albeit it is implicitly performing a const cast.

Once we introduce flag helpers we can improve this more.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bab179d7b153ac12f221b7d65caac2759282cfe9.1764064557.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alice Ryhl <[email protected]>	[rust]
Cc: Alex Gaynor <[email protected]>
Cc: Alistair Popple <[email protected]>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <[email protected]>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Cc: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Segall <[email protected]>
Cc: Björn Roy Baron <[email protected]>
Cc: Boqun Feng <[email protected]>
Cc: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <[email protected]>
Cc: Gary Guo <[email protected]>
Cc: Gregory Price <[email protected]>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Kairui Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <[email protected]>
Cc: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathew Brost <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Nhat Pham <[email protected]>
Cc: Nico Pache <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
Cc: Rakie Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Trevor Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: xu xin <[email protected]>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <[email protected]>
Cc: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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