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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:47:23 +0000 David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> wrote:

> From: Jenny Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com>
>
> The foreign page flag will be used by Xen guests to mark pages that
> have grant mappings of frames from other (foreign) guests.
>
> The foreign flag is an alias for the existing (Xen-specific) pinned
> flag. This is safe because pinned is only used on pages used for page
> tables and these cannot also be foreign.
>

Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


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