On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 04:09:13PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 04:05:57PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 01:31:24PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM David Hildenbrand (Arm) > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 9/15/26 03:08, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:57:20 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> The VM_SPECIAL / VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS mask conflates several unrelated > > > > >> properties: > > > > >> > > > > >> ... > > > > >> > > > > >> It's all rather a mess. > > > > >> > > > > >> This series brings some order to things by both limiting what > > > > >> drivers can > > > > >> do with VMA flags and switching to using predicates that describe > > > > >> behaviour, not arbitrary flags. > > > > > > > > > > That's a lot of patches. > > > > > > > > > > Review is thin and I expect this won't improve a lot. Lots of "no > > > > > functional changes" changes. > > > > > > > > I'll expect to go through all of them. Might just take a bit ;) > > > > > > ditto > > > > Thanks guys! > > Note v3 has been posted to fix a stupid bug in 1/40 + attack some very trivial > sashiko stuff > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260917-b4-mmap-prepare-vma-flag-sanify-v3-0-4583d8a23...@kernel.org/
Just a gentle nudge on this :) If you guys or anybody else has some time it'd be appreciated! (obv. the v3 as linked above not this v2!) I know the series seems intimidating but most of the commits are very small and it's been in -next for a while. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > David > > > > -- > > Cheers, Lorenzo > > -- > Cheers, Lorenzo -- Cheers, Lorenzo
