From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp03.au.ibm.com (e23smtp03.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.145]) (using TLSv1 with cipher CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30C3A1A067F for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:08:45 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp03.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:08:43 +1000 Received: from d23relay09.au.ibm.com (d23relay09.au.ibm.com [9.185.63.181]) by d23dlp02.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1A42BB004D for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:08:37 +1100 (EST) Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by d23relay09.au.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id t9HC8Tkf65142844 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:08:37 +1100 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id t9HC84xk031774 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:08:05 +1100 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: Andrew Morton , Laurent Dufour 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 In-Reply-To: <20151016141129.8b014c6d882c475fafe577a9@linux-foundation.org> References: <20151016141129.8b014c6d882c475fafe577a9@linux-foundation.org> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:37:44 +0530 Message-ID: <87io65itpr.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Andrew Morton writes: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:07:05 +0200 Laurent Dufour 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