Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm/zone-device: rename DEVICE_PUBLIC to DEVICE_HOST

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On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 17:15 -0400, Jérôme Glisse wrote:
> Existing user of ZONE_DEVICE in its DEVICE_PUBLIC variant are not tie
> to specific device and behave more like host memory. This patch rename
> DEVICE_PUBLIC to DEVICE_HOST and free the name DEVICE_PUBLIC to be use
> for cache coherent device memory that has strong tie with the device
> on which the memory is (for instance on board GPU memory).
> 
> There is no functional change here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>

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