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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/27] x86/mm: Introduce _PAGE_DIRTY_SW
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:45:18 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:26:22PM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> +	pte = pte_clear_flags(pte, _PAGE_DIRTY_SW);
>  	return pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_DIRTY_HW | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);

Having both _PAGE_DIRTY_SW and _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY is really confusing.

I'm not sure I have an anwser for this, but urggh.