Thread (71 messages) 71 messages, 11 authors, 2018-10-16

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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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.
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