Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid use of BIT() macro for initialising VMA flags

From: Lorenzo Stoakes

Date: Sat Dec 06 2025 - 11:36:02 EST


On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 07:12:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 11:40:34 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 12:15:01 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not really sure what's the best way to determine this. I use
> > >
> > > hp2:/usr/src/mm> git tag --contains 2b6a3f061f11
> > > mm-everything-2025-11-29-19-43
> > > mm-everything-2025-12-01-19-02
> > > mm-everything-2025-12-03-23-49
> > > mm-everything-2025-12-05-00-55
> > > mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26
> > >
> >
> > What does "git branch --contains 2b6a3f061f11" say in your tree?
>
> hp2:/usr/src/mm> git branch --contains 2b6a3f061f11
> * linus
> mm-everything
> mm-new
> mm-stable
> mm-unstable
> hp2:/usr/src/mm> git branch -r --contains 2b6a3f061f11
> linus/master
> origin/mm-everything
> origin/mm-new
> origin/mm-stable
> origin/mm-unstable
>
> kinda random, but it tells me "that's in mm-stable", which is what counts.
>
> > In my linux-next tree it says (I need the -r to check remote branches):
> >
> > $ git branch -r --contains 2b6a3f061f11
> > mm-stable/mm-stable
> > mm-unstable/mm-unstable
> >
> > but I don't export my remotes to my published tree.

Thanks guys for confirming, this is therefore less work all round :)

Though Andrew do please add the Fixes tag that I foolishly forgot to
include, thanks!

Cheers, Lorenzo