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

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM David Hildenbrand (Arm)
<david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 ;)

ditto

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David