Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:06:33 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag |
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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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