Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:07:05 +0200 Laurent Dufour
> <lduf...@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?
patch 1 and patch 2 are fixes for generic code. That can go via -mm
tree. The ppc64 bits should go via linux-powerpc tree. We have changes
in this area pending to be merged upstream and patch 3 will result
in conflicts.
-aneesh
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