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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/char, branch v7.0-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-7.0-1' of https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T22:34:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-26T22:34:21+00:00</published>
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Pull IPMI driver fixes from Corey Minyard:
 "This mostly revolves around getting the driver to behave when the IPMI
  device misbehaves. Past attempts have not worked very well because I
  didn't have hardware I could make do this, and AI was fairly useless
  for help on this.

  So I modified qemu and my test suite so I could reproduce a
  misbehaving IPMI device, and with that I was able to fix the issues"

* tag 'for-linus-7.0-1' of https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi:
  ipmi:si: Fix check for a misbehaving BMC
  ipmi:msghandler: Handle error returns from the SMI sender
  ipmi:si: Don't block module unload if the BMC is messed up
  ipmi:si: Use a long timeout when the BMC is misbehaving
  ipmi:si: Handle waiting messages when BMC failure detected
  ipmi:ls2k: Make ipmi_ls2k_platform_driver static
  ipmi: ipmb: initialise event handler read bytes
  ipmi: Consolidate the run to completion checking for xmit msgs lock
  ipmi: Fix use-after-free and list corruption on sender error
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Pull IPMI driver fixes from Corey Minyard:
 "This mostly revolves around getting the driver to behave when the IPMI
  device misbehaves. Past attempts have not worked very well because I
  didn't have hardware I could make do this, and AI was fairly useless
  for help on this.

  So I modified qemu and my test suite so I could reproduce a
  misbehaving IPMI device, and with that I was able to fix the issues"

* tag 'for-linus-7.0-1' of https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi:
  ipmi:si: Fix check for a misbehaving BMC
  ipmi:msghandler: Handle error returns from the SMI sender
  ipmi:si: Don't block module unload if the BMC is messed up
  ipmi:si: Use a long timeout when the BMC is misbehaving
  ipmi:si: Handle waiting messages when BMC failure detected
  ipmi:ls2k: Make ipmi_ls2k_platform_driver static
  ipmi: ipmb: initialise event handler read bytes
  ipmi: Consolidate the run to completion checking for xmit msgs lock
  ipmi: Fix use-after-free and list corruption on sender error
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<entry>
<title>Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T19:18:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T19:18:48+00:00</published>
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This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug
option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was
renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM,
and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.

It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited
rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see
all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option.

However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people
don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most
certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all
of them isn't actually helping anything.

And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning
people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that
nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go
wrong.

I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness)
where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of

   random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0

and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to
making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read).

The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that
cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time
tracing.  That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is
likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway.

See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.

And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of
these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than
this "just print it all" model.

Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness")
Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug
option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was
renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM,
and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.

It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited
rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see
all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option.

However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people
don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most
certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all
of them isn't actually helping anything.

And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning
people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that
nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go
wrong.

I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness)
where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of

   random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0

and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to
making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read).

The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that
cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time
tracing.  That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is
likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway.

See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.

And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of
these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than
this "just print it all" model.

Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness")
Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi:si: Fix check for a misbehaving BMC</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T15:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-13T06:15:04+00:00</published>
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There is a race on checking the state in the sender, it needs to be
checked under a lock.  But you also need a check to avoid issues with
a misbehaving BMC for run to completion mode.  So leave the check at
the beginning for run to completion, and add a check under the lock
to avoid the race.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bc3a9d217755 ("ipmi:si: Gracefully handle if the BMC is non-functional")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
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There is a race on checking the state in the sender, it needs to be
checked under a lock.  But you also need a check to avoid issues with
a misbehaving BMC for run to completion mode.  So leave the check at
the beginning for run to completion, and add a check under the lock
to avoid the race.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bc3a9d217755 ("ipmi:si: Gracefully handle if the BMC is non-functional")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ipmi:msghandler: Handle error returns from the SMI sender</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T15:00:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-13T03:56:54+00:00</published>
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It used to be, until recently, that the sender operation on the low
level interfaces would not fail.  That's not the case any more with
recent changes.

So check the return value from the sender operation, and propagate it
back up from there and handle the errors in all places.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bc3a9d217755 ("ipmi:si: Gracefully handle if the BMC is non-functional")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
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It used to be, until recently, that the sender operation on the low
level interfaces would not fail.  That's not the case any more with
recent changes.

So check the return value from the sender operation, and propagate it
back up from there and handle the errors in all places.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bc3a9d217755 ("ipmi:si: Gracefully handle if the BMC is non-functional")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ipmi:si: Don't block module unload if the BMC is messed up</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T14:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Corey Minyard</name>
<email>corey@minyard.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-13T03:52:48+00:00</published>
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If the BMC is in a bad state, don't bother waiting for queues messages
since there can't be any.  Otherwise the unload is blocked until the
BMC is back in a good state.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bc3a9d217755 ("ipmi:si: Gracefully handle if the BMC is non-functional")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
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If the BMC is in a bad state, don't bother waiting for queues messages
since there can't be any.  Otherwise the unload is blocked until the
BMC is back in a good state.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: bc3a9d217755 ("ipmi:si: Gracefully handle if the BMC is non-functional")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.18
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard &lt;corey@minyard.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00</published>
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Pull more MM  updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a
   couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion
   and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao)

 - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare
   mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett)

 - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use
   them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion
   of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios"
   implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming
   clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang)

 - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe
   Lin)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: clear page-&gt;private in free_pages_prepare()
  selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test
  mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios
  arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
  arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios
  arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper
  mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios
  tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions
  tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers
  tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files
  mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
  tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()]
  mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
  ...
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Pull more MM  updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a
   couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion
   and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao)

 - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare
   mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett)

 - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use
   them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion
   of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios"
   implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming
   clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang)

 - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe
   Lin)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: clear page-&gt;private in free_pages_prepare()
  selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test
  mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios
  arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
  arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios
  arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper
  mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios
  tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions
  tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers
  tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files
  mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
  tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()]
  mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
  ...
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