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

[Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 01:31:24PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> 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

Thanks guys!

>
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > David

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Cheers, Lorenzo