[PATCH 0/3] mm/powerpc: enabling memory soft dirty tracking

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Sat Oct 17 08:11:29 AEDT 2015


On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:07:05 +0200 Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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?


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