From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Jenny Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:06:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150122160633.350f22805e20c0c432755e02@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1421682443-20509-3-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com>
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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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-19 15:47 [PATCHv3 0/2] mm: infrastructure for correctly handling foreign pages on Xen David Vrabel
2015-01-19 15:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: provide a find_special_page vma operation David Vrabel
2015-01-23 0:06 ` Andrew Morton
2015-01-19 15:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag David Vrabel
2015-01-23 0:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2015-01-12 15:53 [PATCHv2 0/2] mm: infrastructure for correctly handling foreign pages on Xen David Vrabel
2015-01-12 15:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag David Vrabel
2015-01-08 15:28 [PATCHv1 0/2] mm: infrastructure for correctly handling foreign pages on Xen David Vrabel
2015-01-08 15:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag David Vrabel
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