Re: [PATCH v15 06/26] x86/mm: Change _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW

Borislav Petkov
2020-12-03T09:19:56Z

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:21:51AM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> Before introducing _PAGE_COW for non-hardware memory management purposes in
> the next patch, rename _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW and _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY to
> _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY_HW to make meanings more clear. There are no functional
> changes from this patch.

There's no guarantee for "next" or "this" patch when a patch gets
applied so reword your commit message pls.

Also, I fail to understand here what _PAGE_DIRTY_HW makes more clear?
The page dirty bit is clear enough to me so why the churn?

Thx.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.