Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Dec 2020 10:19:10 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v15 06/26] x86/mm: Change _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW |
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:21:51AM -0800, Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > Before introducing _PAGE_COW for non-hardware memory management purposes in > the next patch, rename _PAGE_DIRTY to _PAGE_DIRTY_HW and _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY to > _PAGE_BIT_DIRTY_HW to make meanings more clear. There are no functional > changes from this patch.
There's no guarantee for "next" or "this" patch when a patch gets applied so reword your commit message pls.
Also, I fail to understand here what _PAGE_DIRTY_HW makes more clear? The page dirty bit is clear enough to me so why the churn?
Thx.
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