Re: [PATCH 0/20 v3] dax: Clear dirty bits after flushing caches

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On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:15:49AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Yeah, so DAX path is special because it installs its own PTE directly from
> the fault handler which we don't do in any other case (only driver fault
> handlers commonly do this but those generally don't care about
> ->page_mkwrite or file mappings for that matter).
> 
> I don't say there are no simplifications or unifications possible, but I'd
> prefer to leave them for a bit later once the current churn with ongoing
> work somewhat settles...

Allright, let's keep it simple for now.  Being said this series clearly
is 4.9 material, but any chance to get a respin of the invalidate_pages
series as that might still be 4.8 material?
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