Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:47:23 + David Vrabel wrote: > From: Jenny Herbert > > The foreign page flag will be used by Xen guests to mark pages that > have grant mappings of frames from other (foreign) guests. > > The foreign flag is an alias for the existing (Xen-specific) pinned > flag. Thi

[PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag

2015-01-19 Thread David Vrabel
From: Jenny Herbert The foreign page flag will be used by Xen guests to mark pages that have grant mappings of frames from other (foreign) guests. The foreign flag is an alias for the existing (Xen-specific) pinned flag. This is safe because pinned is only used on pages used for page tables and

[PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag

2015-01-12 Thread David Vrabel
From: Jenny Herbert The foreign page flag will be used by Xen guests to mark pages that have grant mappings of frames from other (foreign) guests. The foreign flag is an alias for the existing (Xen-specific) pinned flag. This is safe because pinned is only used on pages used for page tables and

[PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag

2015-01-08 Thread David Vrabel
From: Jenny Herbert The foreign page flag will be used by Xen guests to mark pages that have grant mappings of frames from other (foreign) guests. The foreign flag is an alias for the existing (Xen-specific) pinned flag. This is safe because pinned is only used on pages used for page tables and