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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 20:16:37 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> To: Kimball Murray <kimball.murray@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...eo.com Subject: Re: [Feature] x86_64 page tracking for Stratus servers On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:34, Kimball Murray wrote: > Attached is a git patch that implements a feature that is used by Stratus > fault-tolerant servers running on Intel x86_64 platforms. It provides the > kernel mechanism that allows a loadable module to be able to keep track of > recently dirtied pages for the purpose of copying live, currently active > memory, to a spare memory module. As other people commented we normally don't merge hook only patches. The reason for this is that with Linux being so popular and so many people want hooks for their various addons that if there wasn't a fairly strict policy about it then at some point the core kernel code might contain more hooks than actual code doing something. But I see no reason why mainline shouldn't support Stratus systems, so if you merge the whole thing in a clean way it might be possible. It must be already GPL since the exports are _GPL. Bonus points if the dirty tracking is done in a generic enough way that it might be useful for other kernel things too (is that possible? I know Xen etc use it at the Hypervisor level for various stuff) -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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