Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mm: trace: decode architecture-specific VMA flags

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Sat Sep 26 2026 - 02:14:23 EST


On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 14:45:07 +0800 Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> show_vma_flags(), which is used by VMA tracepoints and %pGv, names
> generic VM_* bits but does not fully decode architecture-specific flag
> positions. As a result, trace output and VMA dumps can show a generic
> "arch_1" name or a raw hexadecimal value instead of the meaning assigned
> by the target architecture.
>
> This series adds symbolic names for the arm64 and sparc64 meanings of
> VM_ARCH_1, arm64 MTE flags, user shadow stack flags, and protection-key
> encoding bits under their corresponding configuration guards.

We're presently not showing any review of this series, if someone is up
for it.

Thanks.