From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 02:32:48 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, Dan Williams , Ross Zwisler , "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/20 v3] dax: Clear dirty bits after flushing caches Message-ID: <20161003093248.GA27720@infradead.org> References: <1474992504-20133-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20160930091418.GC24352@infradead.org> <20161003075902.GG6457@quack2.suse.cz> <20161003080337.GA13688@infradead.org> <20161003081549.GH6457@quack2.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161003081549.GH6457@quack2.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:15:49AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Yeah, so DAX path is special because it installs its own PTE directly from > the fault handler which we don't do in any other case (only driver fault > handlers commonly do this but those generally don't care about > ->page_mkwrite or file mappings for that matter). > > I don't say there are no simplifications or unifications possible, but I'd > prefer to leave them for a bit later once the current churn with ongoing > work somewhat settles... Allright, let's keep it simple for now. Being said this series clearly is 4.9 material, but any chance to get a respin of the invalidate_pages series as that might still be 4.8 material? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org