memory mapping · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
• M Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
• M Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• R Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
• R Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
• R Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>

Paths

• F include/trace/events/mmap.h
• F fs/proc/task_mmu.c
• F fs/proc/task_nommu.c
• F mm/interval_tree.c
• F mm/mincore.c
• F mm/mlock.c
• F mm/mmap.c
• F mm/mprotect.c
• F mm/mremap.c
• F mm/mseal.c
• F mm/msync.c
• F mm/nommu.c
• F mm/vma.c
• F mm/vma.h
• F mm/vma_exec.c
• F mm/vma_init.c
• F mm/vma_internal.h
• F tools/testing/selftests/mm/merge.c
• F tools/testing/vma/

Last 30 days

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  11 attestations (1 Acked-by, 10 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-11
• Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
  8 attestations (8 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-07-11

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-mips (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 13/13] mm/mremap: convert mremap code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH v2 12/13] mm/mprotect: convert mprotect code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 11/13] mm/mlock: convert mlock code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 10/13] mm/vma: convert miscellaneous uses of VMA flags in core mm
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 09/13] mm/vma: update create_init_stack_vma() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 07/13] mm/vma: rename vma_get_page_prot to vma_flags_to_page_prot
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 06/13] mm/vma: convert vm_pgprot_modify() to use vma_flags_t and rename
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 05/13] mm: prefer mm->def_vma_flags in mm logic
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 04/13] mm: update generic_get_unmapped_area[_topdown]() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 03/13] mm: convert __get_unmapped_area() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING9d IN LINUX-NEXT: 6 (6M) [PATCH v2 02/13] mm/vma: update do_mmap() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 13/13] mm/mremap: convert mremap code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 12/13] mm/mprotect: convert mprotect code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 11/13] mm/mlock: convert mlock code to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 10/13] mm/vma: convert miscellaneous uses of VMA flags in core mm
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 09/13] mm/vma: update create_init_stack_vma() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 06/13] mm/vma: convert vm_pgprot_modify() to use vma_flags_t and rename
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 04/13] mm: update generic_get_unmapped_area[_topdown]() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 05/13] mm: prefer mm->def_vma_flags in mm logic
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 07/13] mm/vma: rename vma_get_page_prot to vma_flags_to_page_prot
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 03/13] mm: convert __get_unmapped_area() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 02/13] mm/vma: update do_mmap() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH 01/13] mm: introduce vma_flags_can_grow() and vma_can_grow()
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE126d [PATCH v4 25/25] mm: simplify VMA flag tests of excluded flags
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE126d [PATCH v4 24/25] mm/vma: convert __mmap_region() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE126d [PATCH v4 23/25] mm/vma: convert vma_modify_flags[_uffd]() to use vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE126d REVIEWED: 9 (9M) [PATCH v4 21/25] mm/vma: convert as much as we can in mm/vma.c to vma_flags_t
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE126d [PATCH v4 20/25] tools/testing/vma: update VMA tests to test vma_clear_flags[_mask]()
  2026-03-20 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE141d [PATCH 01/20] mm/vma: add vma_flags_empty(), vma_flags_and(), vma_flags_diff_pair()
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 03/20] mm/vma: add further vma_flags_t unions
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 04/20] tools/testing/vma: convert bulk of test code to vma_flags_t
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 05/20] mm/vma: use new VMA flags for sticky flags logic
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 06/20] tools/testing/vma: fix VMA flag tests
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 07/20] mm/vma: add append_vma_flags() helper
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 08/20] tools/testing/vma: add simple test for append_vma_flags()
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 09/20] mm: unexport vm_brk_flags() and eliminate vm_flags parameter
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 10/20] mm/vma: introduce vma_flags_same[_mask/_pair]()
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• STALE141d [PATCH 11/20] mm/vma: introduce [vma_flags,legacy]_to_[legacy,vma_flags]() helpers
  2026-03-12 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>