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

From: Suren Baghdasaryan

Date: Sun Aug 30 2026 - 12:58:22 EST


On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:34:28 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> It's been 2+ weeks so perhaps a refresh-and-remind would be helpful.
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> But it applies well enough and is adequately reviewed so I put it in
> there for testing, thanks.
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> AI review might have found a couple of pre-existing binder bugs:
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> https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260813193433.3318288-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx
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> and a small rusty thing which you might wish to attend to.

Ack.

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> > 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.

Will send an update on Monday.

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> More binder/net acks would be helpful, please.