[PATCH v2 00/40] mm: make VMA flag semantics explicit, eliminate VM_SPECIAL

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:57:20 +0100 "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs at kernel.org> 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.

Perhaps it would be helpful if you were to identify those patches which
you'd like to see reviewers focus on?

>  1153 insertions(+), 582 deletions(-)

It's funny how often cleanup patches do this.

All queued up, thanks.