| Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2018 06:38:56 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v4 09/27] x86/mm: Change _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW |
| |
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.
|