Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:06:09 +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. > > In order to further this aim, this series adds a number of helper functions > to enable ordinary interactions with VMA flags - that is testing, setting > and clearing them. Thanks, I updated mm.git to this version. I dropped the memfd_luo.c hunk due to today's inclusion of https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] `get_maintainer --nogit' wants me to cc 72 people on this patchset. I didn't ;)