On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:19:02 +0000 Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
wrote:
> We introduced the bitmap VMA type vma_flags_t in the aptly named commit
> 9ea35a25d51b ("mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type") in order to permit
> future growth in VMA flags and to prevent the asinine requirement that VMA
> flags be available to 64-bit kernels only if they happened to use a bit
> number about 32-bits.
>
> This is a long-term project as there are very many users of VMA flags
> within the kernel that need to be updated in order to utilise this new
> type.
Thanks, I added this to mm.git's mm-new branch for some public exposure.
I suppressed the usual email storm.
