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 ;)
