Re: [RFC PATCH v4 09/27] x86/mm: Change _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2018-10-03 13:39:10
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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2018-10-03 13:39:10
Also in:
linux-api, linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 08:03:33AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
We are going to create _PAGE_DIRTY_SW for non-hardware, memory management purposes. Rename _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW and _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY to _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY_HW to make these PTE dirty bits more clear. There are no functional changes in this patch.
I would like there to be some documentation in this patchset which explains the difference between PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY and PAGE_DIRTY_SW. Also, is it really necessary to rename PAGE_DIRTY? It feels like a lot of churn.