From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
xemul@parallels.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
mpe@ellerman.id.au, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
criu@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm/powerpc: enabling memory soft dirty tracking
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:37:44 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io65itpr.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151016141129.8b014c6d882c475fafe577a9@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:07:05 +0200 Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> This series is enabling the software memory dirty tracking in the
>> kernel for powerpc. This is the follow up of the commit 0f8975ec4db2
>> ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking") which
>> introduced this feature in the mm code.
>>
>> The first patch is fixing an issue in the code clearing the soft dirty
>> bit. The PTE were not cleared before being modified, leading to hang
>> on ppc64.
>>
>> The second patch is fixing a build issue when the transparent huge
>> page is not enabled.
>>
>> The third patch is introducing the soft dirty tracking in the powerpc
>> architecture code.
>
> I grabbed these patches, but they're more a ppc thing than a core
> kernel thing. I can merge them into 4.3 with suitable acks or drop
> them if they turn up in the powerpc tree. Or something else?
patch 1 and patch 2 are fixes for generic code. That can go via -mm
tree. The ppc64 bits should go via linux-powerpc tree. We have changes
in this area pending to be merged upstream and patch 3 will result
in conflicts.
-aneesh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-17 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-16 12:07 [PATCH 0/3] mm/powerpc: enabling memory soft dirty tracking Laurent Dufour
2015-10-16 12:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: clearing pte in clear_soft_dirty() Laurent Dufour
2015-10-16 15:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-10-17 12:12 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-10-16 12:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: clear_soft_dirty_pmd requires THP Laurent Dufour
2015-10-17 12:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-10-16 12:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/mm: Add page soft dirty tracking Laurent Dufour
2015-10-17 12:19 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-10-17 13:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-10-16 21:11 ` [PATCH 0/3] mm/powerpc: enabling memory " Andrew Morton
2015-10-17 2:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-10-17 12:07 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
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