Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb not supporting write-notify

From: Peter Xu
Date: Mon Aug 08 2022 - 12:10:14 EST


On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 04:33:56PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> It looks like vma_soft_dirty_enabled is recent and not in any stable
> trees (or even 5.19).
>
> Yes, I did start working on hugetlb softdirty support in the past.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210211000322.159437-1-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Unfortunately, it got preempted by other things. I will try to move it up
> the priority list.

Thanks, Mike.

It'll also makes sense to forbid it if it may take time to finish, so we
don't need to push ourselves.

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Peter Xu