Re: [PATCH v2 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 16:22:26 EST


On 9/15/26 03:08, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:57:20 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I'll expect to go through all of them. Might just take a bit ;)

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Cheers,

David