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Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Hugh Dickins , Baolin Wang , Zi Yan , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , Jann Horn , Pedro Falcato , David Howells , Paul Moore , James Morris , "Serge E . Hallyn" , Yury Norov , Rasmus Villemoes , linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ntfs3@lists.linux.dev, devel@lists.orangefs.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them Message-Id: <20260119113302.76b21eb8be2f9d0bb076446d@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: 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: rspam11 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: CD9EF4000D X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: buu59bidcutwoimhrmj7pgdq3qt6eeh9 X-HE-Tag: 1768851187-655083 X-HE-Meta: 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 1hphF0i0 WtBkuu4Os6xSLYnnoPzVdlhEKGzFj+rF3xjjwHuvTn3is/NoRtD5JcMK3pN9Em1u/M03pmYr0emZDGS/+luvQbxGZAABqWSdQUUkanuhOijbtrexux+pv0It8y5gU8Ik20Fl2arArJmO5MRDR1buqVOs561mXw8JieubQ4hnstQnkROgPKnh0OlJh45aLdc8SHNcMcjfiEdM9HlFf/Ovea83yLElPt2YtwJpY3D+Nd4QvKTtbV6hWDxrIqrdIUHk/6o9K8NvggRAg3GuTOyTHmOF9e/2L4BD0Ni03BVVUfE6cTT9tQ+PwAxio92z63L1tndU0KbaEBa2+yNa7XO5nixBL+Y0xNEIEsvsojDDNi8Kg0mSaLTo0nEBkiSvsv4ewHoPOPEUXwalTsUE= X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:48:51 +0000 Lorenzo Stoakes 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, let's give this a run in mm-new for a few days, see if that helps shake anything out. I didn't add [11/12] due to a significant merge clash, but it compiles!