On 04/25/2014 01:10 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > Tracking dirty status on 2 level pages requires very ugly macros > and taking into account how old the machines who can operate > without PAE mode only are, lets drop soft dirty tracker from > them for code simplicity (note I can't drop all the macros > from 2 level pages by now since _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE and > _PAGE_BIT_FILE are still used even without tracker). > > Linus proposed to completely rip off softdirty support on > x86-32 (even with PAE) and since for CRIU we're not planning > to support native x86-32 mode, lets do that. > > (Softdirty tracker is relatively new feature which mostly used > by CRIU so I don't expect if such API change would cause problems > on userspace). I have to wonder which one is more likely to actually matter on whatever legacy 32-bit are going to remain. This pretty much comes down to what kind of advanced features are going to matter in deep embedded applications in the future: checkpoint/restart or NUMA. My guess is that it is actually checkpoint/restart... How much does it actually simplify to leave this feature in for PAE? I could care less about non-PAE... NX has pretty much killed that off cold. -hpa -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>