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mm: dax: add comment for PFN_SPECIAL

Message ID 1538077089-14550-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com (mailing list archive)
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Series mm: dax: add comment for PFN_SPECIAL | expand

Commit Message

Yang Shi Sept. 27, 2018, 7:38 p.m. UTC
The comment for PFN_SPECIAL is missed in pfn_t.h. Add comment to get
consistent with other pfn flags.

Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 include/linux/pfn_t.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Dan Williams Sept. 27, 2018, 9:08 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:39 PM <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> The comment for PFN_SPECIAL is missed in pfn_t.h. Add comment to get
> consistent with other pfn flags.
>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/pfn_t.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/pfn_t.h b/include/linux/pfn_t.h
> index 21713dc..d2e5dd4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pfn_t.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pfn_t.h
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>   * PFN_SG_LAST - pfn references a page and is the last scatterlist entry
>   * PFN_DEV - pfn is not covered by system memmap by default
>   * PFN_MAP - pfn has a dynamic page mapping established by a device driver
> + * PFN_SPECIAL - indicates that _PAGE_SPECIAL should be used for DAX ptes

That's not quite accurate, I would change this to:

PFN_SPECIAL - for CONFIG_FS_DAX_LIMITED builds to allow XIP, but not
get_user_pages.
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diff --git a/include/linux/pfn_t.h b/include/linux/pfn_t.h
index 21713dc..d2e5dd4 100644
--- a/include/linux/pfn_t.h
+++ b/include/linux/pfn_t.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ 
  * PFN_SG_LAST - pfn references a page and is the last scatterlist entry
  * PFN_DEV - pfn is not covered by system memmap by default
  * PFN_MAP - pfn has a dynamic page mapping established by a device driver
+ * PFN_SPECIAL - indicates that _PAGE_SPECIAL should be used for DAX ptes
  */
 #define PFN_FLAGS_MASK (((u64) ~PAGE_MASK) << (BITS_PER_LONG_LONG - PAGE_SHIFT))
 #define PFN_SG_CHAIN (1ULL << (BITS_PER_LONG_LONG - 1))