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charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-riscv" Errors-To: linux-riscv-bounces+linux-riscv=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org 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 _______________________________________________ linux-riscv mailing list linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv