Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: add architecture primitives for software dirty bit clearing

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 22:48:54 +0300
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 05:22:19PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > There are primitives to create and query the software dirty bits
> > in a pte or pmd. But the clearing of the software dirty bits is done
> > in common code with x86 specific page table functions.
> > 
> > Add the missing architecture primitives to clear the software dirty
> > bits to allow the feature to be used on non-x86 systems, e.g. the
> > s390 architecture.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks good to me. Thank you, Martin!
> (I cant ack s390 part 'casuse I simply not familiar
>  with the architecture).

Sure, the s390 patch just shows why the new arch functions are needed..

> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. I have added both patches to the features branch of linux-s390
for the 4.4 merge window.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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