From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: add architecture primitives for software dirty bit clearing
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:35:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150922093549.504a5fb3@mschwide> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150921194854.GD3181@uranus>
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 22:48:54 +0300
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 05:22:19PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > There are primitives to create and query the software dirty bits
> > in a pte or pmd. But the clearing of the software dirty bits is done
> > in common code with x86 specific page table functions.
> >
> > Add the missing architecture primitives to clear the software dirty
> > bits to allow the feature to be used on non-x86 systems, e.g. the
> > s390 architecture.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
>
> Looks good to me. Thank you, Martin!
> (I cant ack s390 part 'casuse I simply not familiar
> with the architecture).
Sure, the s390 patch just shows why the new arch functions are needed..
> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Thanks. I have added both patches to the features branch of linux-s390
for the 4.4 merge window.
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blue skies,
Martin.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-22 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-21 15:22 [PATCH 0/2] mm: soft-dirty bits for s390 Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: add architecture primitives for software dirty bit clearing Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-21 19:48 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-22 7:35 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2015-09-22 9:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2015-09-22 10:30 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2015-09-21 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] s390/mm: implement soft-dirty bits for user memory change tracking Martin Schwidefsky
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