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sKgPh0xHw1cm5KwelyiWwbJPFeOyZic8pd1eDV7MHO8Iv8MVRWouWataCanUGV9vqwzbBsVP505Vwa/WcpRZ4NNCR7MhrlfAGVY2YickylVP/UPLCL0FmswmhCqtfVjw9xksz5PHECvdUxoc+QVco70JB6FDmsXTe3SCH9crvNucZpXE9Vipz3LQZa6a59cZjZHacdM/VKDt+1cxciEsbDvzCQAlzT4T6GB1AhDMrtETgqX/jqVxaQ9repq8Rtt0nGM1lDIBi2Vpj+Mp1BHmZ0oz1gCku/tQtUJSQwr1ZiX1BPvWZKl2HCUXWndvLh/WA35/Cfl/Q8mpINQERbNME6FUqkbeSPvY7yV/hBBPyLfEAvcMFCZA69 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 9/15/26 03:08, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:57:20 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" 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 ;) -- Cheers, David