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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:PROC FILESYSTEM" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK"
	<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL to get and clear soft dirty PTE bit
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:22:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YwcjTOgKD22TXwYk@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220825070926.2922471-3-usama.anjum@collabora.com>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 12:09:24PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> - The flags can be specified in the flags field. Currently only one
>   PAGEMAP_SD_NO_REUSED_REGIONS is supported which can be specified to
>   ignore the VMA dirty flags.

You forgot to check that all other bits in that flag are set to 0
properly, otherwise you can never add a new bit to the field ever as you
can't expect userspace got it right and did not accidentaly set it
already.

There is kernel documentation on how to add a new ioctl, you might want
to read up on that first before resending this.

thanks,

greg k-h


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-25  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-25  7:09 [PATCH v2 0/4] Implement IOCTL to get and clear soft dirty PTE Muhammad Usama Anjum
2022-08-25  7:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] fs/proc/task_mmu: update functions to clear the soft-dirty bit Muhammad Usama Anjum
2022-08-25  7:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL to get and clear soft dirty PTE bit Muhammad Usama Anjum
2022-08-25  7:21   ` Greg KH
2022-08-25  7:22   ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-08-25 10:49     ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2022-08-25  7:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] selftests: vm: add pagemap ioctl tests Muhammad Usama Anjum
2022-08-25  7:09 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] mm: add documentation of the new ioctl on pagemap Muhammad Usama Anjum

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