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From: Minchan Kim <minchan-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 5/8] s390: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:06:30 +0900
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Hello,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:16:14AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:53:29 +0900
> Minchan Kim <minchan-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent
> > overwrite of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for
> > THP page but for s390 pmds only referenced bit is available
> > because there is no free bit left in the pmd entry for the
> > software dirty bit so this patch adds dumb pmd_dirty which
> > returns always true by suggesting by Martin.
> > 
> > They finally find a solution in future.
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-api&m=140440328820808&w=2
> 
> The solution is already there, see git commit 152125b7a882df36.
> You can drop this patch.

Thanks for the heads up. I will drop it in next spin.
> 
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>    Martin.
> 
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