Re: [PATCH v1 00/11] mm: rewrite pfnmap tracking and remove VM_PAT

2025-04-25 Thread David Hildenbrand
There will be some clash with [1], but nothing that cannot be sorted out easily by moving the functions added to kernel/fork.c to wherever the vma bits will live. Briefly tested with some basic /dev/mem test I crafted. I want to convert them to selftests, but that might or might not require a bit

Re: [PATCH v1 00/11] mm: rewrite pfnmap tracking and remove VM_PAT

2025-04-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Hildenbrand wrote: > On top of mm-unstable. > > VM_PAT annoyed me too much and wasted too much of my time, let's clean > PAT handling up and remove VM_PAT. > > This should sort out various issues with VM_PAT we discovered recently, > and will hopefully make the whole code more stable

[PATCH v1 00/11] mm: rewrite pfnmap tracking and remove VM_PAT

2025-04-25 Thread David Hildenbrand
On top of mm-unstable. VM_PAT annoyed me too much and wasted too much of my time, let's clean PAT handling up and remove VM_PAT. This should sort out various issues with VM_PAT we discovered recently, and will hopefully make the whole code more stable and easier to maintain. In essence: we stop