linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid use of BIT() macro for initialising VMA flags

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Message-ID: <492bf977-d590-47fc-bcba-898bbee01c16@lucifer.local>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 16:35:30 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        oliver.sang@...el.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid use of BIT() macro for initialising VMA flags

On Fri, Dec 05, 2025 at 07:12:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 11:40:34 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2025 12:15:01 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not really sure what's the best way to determine this.  I use
> > >
> > > hp2:/usr/src/mm> git tag --contains 2b6a3f061f11
> > > mm-everything-2025-11-29-19-43
> > > mm-everything-2025-12-01-19-02
> > > mm-everything-2025-12-03-23-49
> > > mm-everything-2025-12-05-00-55
> > > mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26
> > >
> >
> > What does "git branch --contains 2b6a3f061f11" say in your tree?
>
> hp2:/usr/src/mm> git branch --contains 2b6a3f061f11
> * linus
>   mm-everything
>   mm-new
>   mm-stable
>   mm-unstable
> hp2:/usr/src/mm> git branch -r --contains 2b6a3f061f11
>   linus/master
>   origin/mm-everything
>   origin/mm-new
>   origin/mm-stable
>   origin/mm-unstable
>
> kinda random, but it tells me "that's in mm-stable", which is what counts.
>
> > In my linux-next tree it says (I need the -r to check remote branches):
> >
> > $ git branch -r --contains 2b6a3f061f11
> >   mm-stable/mm-stable
> >   mm-unstable/mm-unstable
> >
> > but I don't export my remotes to my published tree.

Thanks guys for confirming, this is therefore less work all round :)

Though Andrew do please add the Fixes tag that I foolishly forgot to
include, thanks!

Cheers, Lorenzo