[PATCH v3 3/7] mm: Add PG_arch_3 page flag

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Sep 20 08:39:47 PDT 2022


On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 07:12:53PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:01:55 +0100,
> Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > Peter, please let me know if you want to pick this series up together
> > with your other KVM patches. Otherwise I can post it separately, it's
> > worth merging it on its own as it clarifies the page flag vs tag setting
> > ordering.
> 
> I'm looking at queuing this, but I'm confused by this comment. Do I
> need to pick this as part of the series? Or is this an independent
> thing (my hunch is that it is actually required not to break other
> architectures...).

This series series (at least the first patches) won't apply cleanly on
top of 6.0-rc1 and, of course, we shouldn't break other architectures. I
can repost the whole series but I don't have the setup to test the
MAP_SHARED KVM option (unless Peter plans to post it soon).

-- 
Catalin



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