From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752873AbbJPVLb (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:11:31 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55539 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750714AbbJPVLa (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:11:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:11:29 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Laurent Dufour Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, xemul@parallels.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, benh@kernel.crashing.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org, criu@openvz.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mm/powerpc: enabling memory soft dirty tracking Message-Id: <20151016141129.8b014c6d882c475fafe577a9@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:07:05 +0200 Laurent Dufour wrote: > This series is enabling the software memory dirty tracking in the > kernel for powerpc. This is the follow up of the commit 0f8975ec4db2 > ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking") which > introduced this feature in the mm code. > > The first patch is fixing an issue in the code clearing the soft dirty > bit. The PTE were not cleared before being modified, leading to hang > on ppc64. > > The second patch is fixing a build issue when the transparent huge > page is not enabled. > > The third patch is introducing the soft dirty tracking in the powerpc > architecture code. I grabbed these patches, but they're more a ppc thing than a core kernel thing. I can merge them into 4.3 with suitable acks or drop them if they turn up in the powerpc tree. Or something else?