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linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL Message-Id: <20260914180811.057cba8fcc48d6e0b53a2683@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20260914-b4-mmap-prepare-vma-flag-sanify-v2-0-7d9781ed5361@kernel.org> References: <20260914-b4-mmap-prepare-vma-flag-sanify-v2-0-7d9781ed5361@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: t4zukw9xkrm5qpiik1p8kr5qnzpbxgig X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 8AAA118000F X-HE-Tag: 1789434497-646517 X-HE-Meta: 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IU7scIDOXX/L2lV7gvldFyzRkx6FXoFcPn8cN74Ig9+oDzIS2duhqLXU5DJjP4BV7MUCU2WdF7yWR2A3aQuiQUu7IpHKWjJCyhPuJUsxVwkKMEnwVCwhG0jB+OEuh/Ov5aHJnOk3mkYsyfZowRY7kiJ4vF0Pdjb4JiuLIGKh3ekdLAKAnoGuj+kZ91jFaVAAxhDRnw43C1Da8J7cPFnISexHsMmhxeMSWp+IkOajlA7J8uIwnh3mP7rmb4mPM0QWHuQWBywJe98v2qoVVpPPtw5USzOdZBV+UFfeORF8feISEAWo6jp3xyW1ZcKidtJy1acTFPUPMa54TA6CjhlpvinuriJhRtmvo= Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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. Perhaps it would be helpful if you were to identify those patches which you'd like to see reviewers focus on? > 1153 insertions(+), 582 deletions(-) It's funny how often cleanup patches do this. All queued up, thanks.