linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/4] mm: Clear VM_SOFTDIRTY flag inside clear_refs_write instead of clear_soft

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:29:35 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, hughd@...gle.com,
	xemul@...allels.com, Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] mm: Clear VM_SOFTDIRTY flag inside clear_refs_write
 instead of clear_soft_dirty

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:06:54AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> I resolved this by merging
> mm-softdirty-clear-vm_softdirty-flag-inside-clear_refs_write-instead-of-clear_soft_dirty.patch
> on top of the pagewalk patches as below - please carefully review.

Thanks a lot, Andrew! I've updated the patches and were planning to send them to you
tonightm but because you applied it on top of pagewal patches, I think i rather need to
fetch -next repo and review this patch and update the rest of the series on top (hope
i'll do that in 3-4 hours).

> 
> I'm hoping we'll be able to get the pagewalk patches merged in 3.16-rc1
> - we'll see what happens when the testing gets underway again.
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