diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 943c76b..cf8931e 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 			unsigned long address, unsigned int flags);
 int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long from, long to,
 						struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-						int acctflags);
+						vm_flags_t vm_flags);
 void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed);
 int dequeue_hwpoisoned_huge_page(struct page *page);
 void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src);
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
 
 extern const struct file_operations hugetlbfs_file_operations;
 extern const struct vm_operations_struct hugetlb_vm_ops;
-struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, int acct,
+struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size, vm_flags_t acct,
 				struct user_struct **user, int creat_flags);
 int hugetlb_get_quota(struct address_space *mapping, long delta);
 void hugetlb_put_quota(struct address_space *mapping, long delta);
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
 #define is_file_hugepages(file)			0
 #define set_file_hugepages(file)		BUG()
 static inline struct file *hugetlb_file_setup(const char *name, size_t size,
-		int acctflag, struct user_struct **user, int creat_flags)
+		vm_flags_t acctflag, struct user_struct **user, int creat_flags)
 {
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb_inline.h b/include/linux/hugetlb_inline.h
index 6931489..2bb681f 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb_inline.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb_inline.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 static inline int is_vm_hugetlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
-	return vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB;
+	return !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB);
 }
 
 #else
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 8eb969e..fb8e814 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -165,12 +165,12 @@
  */
 static inline int is_linear_pfn_mapping(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
-	return (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFN_AT_MMAP);
+	return !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFN_AT_MMAP);
 }
 
 static inline int is_pfn_mapping(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
-	return (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
+	return !!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@
 	unsigned long flag, unsigned long pgoff);
 extern unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 	unsigned long len, unsigned long flags,
-	unsigned int vm_flags, unsigned long pgoff);
+	vm_flags_t vm_flags, unsigned long pgoff);
 
 static inline unsigned long do_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 	unsigned long len, unsigned long prot,
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 071d459..6fe96c1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@
 #endif
 };
 
+typedef unsigned long __nocast vm_flags_t;
+
 /*
  * A region containing a mapping of a non-memory backed file under NOMMU
  * conditions.  These are held in a global tree and are pinned by the VMAs that
@@ -109,7 +111,7 @@
  */
 struct vm_region {
 	struct rb_node	vm_rb;		/* link in global region tree */
-	unsigned long	vm_flags;	/* VMA vm_flags */
+	vm_flags_t	vm_flags;	/* VMA vm_flags */
 	unsigned long	vm_start;	/* start address of region */
 	unsigned long	vm_end;		/* region initialised to here */
 	unsigned long	vm_top;		/* region allocated to here */