Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: vma flag tweaks

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Thu Mar 05 2026 - 20:28:43 EST


On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 10:50:13 +0000 "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ongoing work around introducing non-system word VMA flags has
> introduced a number of helper functions and macros to make life easier when
> working with these flags and to make conversions from the legacy use of
> VM_xxx flags more straightforward.
>
> This series improves these to reduce confusion as to what they do and to
> improve consistency and readability.

Thanks, I quietly added this (and the -fix) to mm.git's mm-new branch.