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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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