Re: [PATCH v2] mips/mm: Add page soft dirty tracking

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Sun May 17 2020 - 04:55:51 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 04:44:32PM +0800, Guoyun Sun wrote:
> User space checkpoint and restart tool (CRIU) needs the page's change
> to be soft tracked. This allows to do a pre checkpoint and then dump
> only touched pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guoyun Sun <sunguoyun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h | 20 +++++++++++++--
> arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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