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Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:09:33 +1000
From:   Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:     Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        David Nellans <dnellans@...dia.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm/zone-device: rename DEVICE_PUBLIC to DEVICE_HOST

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 17:15 -0400, Jérôme Glisse wrote:
> Existing user of ZONE_DEVICE in its DEVICE_PUBLIC variant are not tie
> to specific device and behave more like host memory. This patch rename
> DEVICE_PUBLIC to DEVICE_HOST and free the name DEVICE_PUBLIC to be use
> for cache coherent device memory that has strong tie with the device
> on which the memory is (for instance on board GPU memory).
> 
> There is no functional change here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>

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