From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752696AbbKNBC4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:02:56 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:62577 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751658AbbKNBCy (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:02:54 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,289,1444719600"; d="scan'208";a="819571450" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] mm: add pmd_mkclean() To: Ross Zwisler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1447459610-14259-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <1447459610-14259-3-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "J. Bruce Fields" , "Theodore Ts'o" , Alexander Viro , Andreas Dilger , Dan Williams , Dave Chinner , Ingo Molnar , Jan Kara , Jeff Layton , Matthew Wilcox , Thomas Gleixner , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, x86@kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <56468838.6010506@intel.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:02:48 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1447459610-14259-3-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/13/2015 04:06 PM, Ross Zwisler wrote: > +static inline pmd_t pmd_mkclean(pmd_t pmd) > +{ > + return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY); > +} pte_mkclean() doesn't clear _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY. What the thought behind doing it here?