From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACA7F4F5E0C for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789680388; cv=none; b=Nmd2WVATqRzAVKws/oyDWyBbnQKdox6d0a0QspA45NevejCH3o5U5YGfv4RX+en/rFBsfU59MXBvQe87Mio3vQqTldz8Dr1XdlVfK/in8mbcl4t1Pbbl/OFk1SkcZ9uqCe6nQgzcRMft28TsyKNrgpQlmEDCU7vooKyVruxcUSk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1789680388; c=relaxed/simple; bh=qaHvynDZ5DxlmwpeHb7nlxZIBiTTC8lcfIwDWwdUPhw=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-Id; b=C4WBJd4WihCI5j23kTVgwXu527kKZounvxSWGnH3qFsK2LJULFEqPuBTfsH6GfguLwkYD9hbbcECj1pQqKiEWhuw/GC3/bsBXLnmsGYBXY89j5qyBL0zU64YKGY/EVMFdL/99tGKR5BiJiORlN9waMNBW4Kj4fkzkUbuvlG0vuE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b=B+iggOkN; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b="B+iggOkN" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DAA21F00893; Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:26:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1789680385; bh=Doo46JhONfg6/+tjpJh1nW4abT6+qOr1mn4y9EXawn0=; h=Date:To:From:Subject; b=B+iggOkNZnwKgfQ4R+OHu6oiH4T4aUE0dKj0t1Enc+gEPYNohB/jM5/rSwHWGg6Rl TopJaUO8j6ZJY2jQB26iIzG5ueTEt3W8RxW51p1ISj6OlBPTTD+2hPODPyAqDnyKrT v/6T9Z6RdM5WJnNIlt5Wy6c+M3c/PNh9DXloqBcE= Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:26:24 -0700 To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ljs@kernel.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org From: Andrew Morton Subject: + mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested.patch added to mm-unstable branch Message-Id: <20260917212625.3DAA21F00893@smtp.kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: The patch titled Subject: mm: eliminate VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS usage when hugetlb explicitly tested has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via various branches at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there most days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Subject: mm: eliminate VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS usage when hugetlb explicitly tested Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:22:43 +0100 It is now an invariant that VMA_IO_BIT is not set except by kernel-owned mappings, so each existing VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS test need only test for VMA_DONTEXPAND_BIT, VMA_PFNMAP_BIT and VMA_MIXEDMAP_BIT. This is precisely a test for a kernel-owned or fixed mapping. Update a number of callsites which already explicitly handle hugetlb mappings. vma_supports_mlock() and ksm_compatible() also explicitly bail on droppable mappings - detecting kernel-owned, fixed or droppable mappings is handled by vma_is_persistent(), so in these cases use this predicate. should_skip_vma() tests for locked, kernel-owned or fixed memory (having already excluded hugetlb mappings) so simply test for those there. No functional change intended. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260917-b4-mmap-prepare-vma-flag-sanify-v3-34-4583d8a23bca@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Barry Song Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Chris Li Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Claudio Imbrenda Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Dennis Dalessandro Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Doug Gilbert Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Emil Tsalapatis Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Janosch Frank Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jaya Kumar Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Maxime Ripard Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Namhyung kim Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Moore Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Sebastian Reichel Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Takashi Iwai (SUSE) Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yuanchu Xie Cc: Zi Yan --- mm/internal.h | 4 +--- mm/ksm.c | 4 +--- mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/mm/internal.h~mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested +++ a/mm/internal.h @@ -1113,9 +1113,7 @@ static inline struct file *maybe_unlock_ static inline bool vma_supports_mlock(const struct vm_area_struct *vma) { - if (vma_test_any_mask(vma, VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS)) - return false; - if (vma_test_single_mask(vma, VMA_DROPPABLE)) + if (!vma_is_persistent(vma)) return false; if (vma_is_dax(vma) || vma_is_hugetlb(vma)) return false; --- a/mm/ksm.c~mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested +++ a/mm/ksm.c @@ -747,9 +747,7 @@ static bool ksm_compatible(const struct if (vma_flags_test_any(&vma_flags, VMA_SHARED_BIT, VMA_MAYSHARE_BIT, VMA_HUGETLB_BIT)) return false; - if (vma_flags_test_single_mask(&vma_flags, VMA_DROPPABLE)) - return false; - if (vma_flags_test_any_mask(&vma_flags, VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS)) + if (!vma_flags_is_persistent(&vma_flags)) return false; if (file_is_dax(file)) return false; --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3480,7 +3480,8 @@ static int should_skip_vma(unsigned long if (!vma_has_recency(vma)) return true; - if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED | VM_SPECIAL)) + if (vma_test(vma, VMA_LOCKED_BIT) || vma_is_kernel_owned(vma) || + vma_is_fixed_mapping(vma)) return true; if (vma == get_gate_vma(vma->vm_mm)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ljs@kernel.org are mm-vmpressure-remove-window-size-todo.patch tools-testing-selftests-mm-add-missing-gitignore-entries.patch mm-move-drivers-char-memc-to-mm-char-memc.patch mm-implement-file_is_dev_zero-to-uniquely-identify-dev-zero.patch mm-vma-only-permit-map_private-dev-zero-to-be-mapped-anonymous.patch mm-vma-make-map_private-mapped-dev-zero-mappings-truly-anonymous.patch tools-testing-vma-add-test-to-assert-map_private-dev-zero-is-anon.patch tools-testing-selftests-mm-add-map_private-dev-zero-merge-tests.patch mm-madvise-swap-in-cowd-map_private-file-mappings-on-madv_willneed.patch mm-huge_memory-zap-deposited-page-tables-after-an-rcu-grace-period.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-most-2-level-architectures.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-mmu-riscv.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-mmu-arm.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-arc-microblaze-xtensa.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sparc64.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-m68k-coldfire.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sh-x2.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-m68k-motorola.patch mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sparc32.patch mm-make-userland-page-table-freeing-rcu-safe.patch mm-change-the-contract-for-free_pgtables-update-docs.patch mm-vma-fix-mmap_prepare-file-handling-remove-file_doesnt_need_get.patch mm-vma-predicate-setting-mmap_prepare-vma-fields-on-new-vma-alloc.patch mm-vma-introduce-and-use-vma_can_merge.patch mm-consistently-validate-vma-state-after-mmap-hooks.patch mm-vma-ensure-mmap_prepare-doesnt-set-actions-on-a-mergeable-vma.patch mm-make-map_kernel_pages_-internal-and-unexported.patch mm-vma-tidy-up-map-kernel-pages-enum-values.patch mm-add-mmap-action-for-discontiguous-kernel-page-mapping.patch docs-filesystems-update-mmap_prepare-docs-for-discontig-kernel-pgs.patch drivers-usb-mon-update-to-use-mmap_prepare-map-kernel-pages.patch infiniband-update-hfi1-to-use-remap_vmalloc_range.patch selinux-reject-writable-opens-of-policy-file-drop-mmap-shared-write-check.patch alsa-pcm-use-vm_insert_page-to-map-pcm-status-page.patch bpf-arena-mark-arena_map_mmap-mappings-vm_mixedmap.patch mm-vma-add-vma_is_kernel_owned-predicates.patch mm-vma-only-allow-mmap-to-clear-vma_maywrite_bit-if-kernel-owned.patch mm-vma-add-and-use-vma__is_fixed_mapping.patch scsi-sg-convert-mmap-hook-to-mmap_prepare-and-rework.patch fbdev-defio-assert-fbinfo_virtfb-drop-vm_io-add-vm_mixedmap.patch hsi-cmt_speech-convert-mmap-hook-to-mmap_prepare-refactor.patch mm-gup-error-out-early-on-vma_mayread_bit-vmas.patch uprobes-remove-vm_io-set-vm_mixedmap-for-mapped-kernel-pages.patch mm-mlock-clear-vma_locked_mask-over-mmap-callback.patch mm-mlock-eliminate-weird-vma_io_bit-abuse-and-simplify.patch mm-vma-enforce-that-only-kernel-owned-mappings-may-set-vma_io_bit.patch mm-remove-vma_io_bit-check-in-vma_is_kernel_owned.patch mm-remove-hugetlb_inlineh.patch mm-rename-is_vm_hugetlb_page-to-vma_is_hugetlb.patch mm-drop-some-redundant-checks-around-hugetlb-vmas.patch mm-madvise-update-is_valid_guard_vma-to-use-vma_can_merge.patch mm-vma-introduce-vma_is_persistent.patch mm-uffd-use-predicates-for-userfaultfd-checks.patch mm-madvise-use-predicates-for-madvise-madv_dofork.patch mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested.patch mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-check-in-lru_gen_look_around.patch mm-avoid-use-of-vma_special_flags-in-migrate_vma_setup.patch mm-eliminate-vm_special-vma_special_flags.patch fuse-dax-do-not-set-vm_mixedmap.patch mm-huge_memory-remove-vma_is_special_huge.patch mm-vma-introduce-and-use-vma_can_gup.patch mm-vma-const-ify-vma_assert_stabilised-and-associated-functions.patch mm-implement-and-use-vma_has_anon_rmap-silence-kcsan.patch mm-update-comments-to-refer-to-anon-rmap-rather-than-anon_vma.patch