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* [patch 0/2] A few simplifications for softdirty memory tracker code
@ 2014-04-25  8:10 Cyrill Gorcunov
  2014-04-25  8:10 ` [patch 1/2] mm: pgtable -- Drop unneeded preprocessor ifdef Cyrill Gorcunov
  2014-04-25  8:10 ` [patch 2/2] mm: pgtable -- Require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker Cyrill Gorcunov
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Cyrill Gorcunov @ 2014-04-25  8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: linux-mm, torvalds, mgorman, hpa, mingo, steven, riel,
	david.vrabel, akpm, peterz, xemul, gorcunov

Hi, here are a few simplifications for softdirty memory tracker code, in
particular we dropped off x86-32 support since it seems noone needed it
here on x86 platform.

As Andrew requested I've rebased patches on top of current linux-next repo.

Also at first I wanted to rip off _PAGE_PSE bit which we use in swap ptes
to track dirty status of swapped pages and reuse _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY
instead. It's still possible but requires additional shrinking of
maximal swap size and I don't know if it's acceptible or not. Currently
we have

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
/* Automatic NUMA balancing needs to be distinguishable from swap entries */
#define SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT (_PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE + 2)
#else
#define SWP_OFFSET_SHIFT (_PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE + 1)
#endif

If I reuse _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY I'll have to increase this shift up
to bit 11, which, again, I think is too much, right?

Comments are highly appreciated!

	Cyrill

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2014-04-25  8:10 [patch 0/2] A few simplifications for softdirty memory tracker code Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-04-25  8:10 ` [patch 1/2] mm: pgtable -- Drop unneeded preprocessor ifdef Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-04-25  8:10 ` [patch 2/2] mm: pgtable -- Require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-05-05 23:31   ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-06  8:25     ` [patch 2/2] mm: pgtable -- Require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker, v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-05-06 16:28   ` [patch 2/2] mm: pgtable -- Require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-06 17:03     ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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