Re: [PATCH v2 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2026-09-15 01:08:21
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:57:20 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" [off-list ref] wrote:
The VM_SPECIAL / VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS mask conflates several unrelated properties: ... It's all rather a mess. This series brings some order to things by both limiting what drivers can do with VMA flags and switching to using predicates that describe behaviour, not arbitrary flags.
That's a lot of patches. Review is thin and I expect this won't improve a lot. Lots of "no functional changes" changes. Perhaps it would be helpful if you were to identify those patches which you'd like to see reviewers focus on?
1153 insertions(+), 582 deletions(-)
It's funny how often cleanup patches do this. All queued up, thanks.