Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/12] mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:19:02 +0000 Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> wrote: > We introduced the bitmap VMA type vma_flags_t in the aptly named commit > 9ea35a25d51b ("mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type") in order to permit > future growth in VMA flags and to prevent the asinine requirement that VMA > flags be available to 64-bit kernels only if they happened to use a bit > number about 32-bits. > > This is a long-term project as there are very many users of VMA flags > within the kernel that need to be updated in order to utilise this new > type. Thanks, I added this to mm.git's mm-new branch for some public exposure. I suppressed the usual email storm.