Re: [PATCH v2 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL
From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-18 20:21:13
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On 9/15/26 03:08, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:57:20 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
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.
I'll expect to go through all of them. Might just take a bit ;) -- Cheers, David