Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] mm: Unconditional per-VMA locks and cleanups

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:34:28 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> v2 version of this patchset [1] was written by Dave Hansen and per his
> request, I'm taking over this series.
> 
> tl;dr: Make per-VMA locks available in all configs. Simplify some
> of the per-VMA lock users now that they can rely on them being
> always available.

It's been 2+ weeks so perhaps a refresh-and-remind would be helpful.

But it applies well enough and is adequately reviewed so I put it in
there for testing, thanks.

AI review might have found a couple of pre-existing binder bugs:

	https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260813193433.3318288-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx

and a small rusty thing which you might wish to attend to.

> Binder and networking folks: Your code is the target of the cleanups.
> I'm cc'ing you now on v2 because there's emerging consensus on the mm
> side that the approach here is sane. I'm not quite sure how this pile
> would get merged, but ack/review tags would be appreciated if this
> looks good to you.

As said, a resend might help with this.

More binder/net acks would be helpful, please.