Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Use an alternative to _PAGE_PROTNONE for _PAGE_NUMA v2

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Tue Apr 08 2014 - 15:06:40 EST


On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:55:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I picked a solution. The posted series uses a different bit.
>
> Yes, and I actually like that. I have nothing against your patch
> series. I'm ranting and raving because you then seemed to say "maybe
> we shouldn't pick a solution after all" when you said:
>
> > > If you are ok with leaving _PAGE_NUMA as _PAGE_PROTNONE
>
> which was what I reacted to.
>

Ok, my bad. To be absolutly clear I want to move away from aliasing the
_PAGE_PROTNONE bit. As David reports the series works for him, I'll wait
a bit to see if there are objections or an alternative patch series from
another direction. If not, I'll remove the RFC and repost it through the
x86 maintainers.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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