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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, criu@lists.linux.dev,
	Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Suppress pte soft-dirty bit with UFFDIO_COPY?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 09:24:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aCNIKm5OJ2h12z2j@x1.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP045Ao-onmzcVSic+4D+aDc_M9HTF7UK3NAdC5BcZvDmN370g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:16:12AM -0700, Kyle Huey wrote:
> Personally I don't think it's a real issue to have to create a
> sacrificial fd once at process initialization to see what features are
> available. I wouldn't have even said anything if the man page hadn't
> explicitly told me there was another way.

Yes, that's indeed the part that could be confusing and needs fixing.  Just
to keep a record (I have you copied), I sent the man-pages changes here:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512171922.356408-1-peterx@redhat.com

We can stick with the sacrificial fd until there's a solid clue showing
that we should introduce a new way to probe.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu



  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-13 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-05 16:37 Kyle Huey
2025-05-05 20:05 ` Peter Xu
2025-05-05 22:15   ` Kyle Huey
2025-05-12  3:06     ` Kyle Huey
2025-05-12 15:54       ` Peter Xu
2025-05-12 17:16         ` Kyle Huey
2025-05-13 13:24           ` Peter Xu [this message]
2025-05-23 20:32             ` Axel Rasmussen

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