Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v4 09/27] x86/mm: Change _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW | From | Yu-cheng Yu <> | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:07:52 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2018-10-03 at 06:38 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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.
I will add some comments for the difference between PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY and PAGE_DIRTY_SW.
Yu-cheng
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