Hello,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:16:14AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:53:29 +0900
> Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent
> > overwrite of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for
> > THP page but for s390 pmds only referenced bit is available
> > because there is no free bit left in the pmd entry for the
> > software dirty bit so this patch adds dumb pmd_dirty which
> > returns always true by suggesting by Martin.
> > 
> > They finally find a solution in future.
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-api&m=140440328820808&w=2
> 
> The solution is already there, see git commit 152125b7a882df36.
> You can drop this patch.

Thanks for the heads up. I will drop it in next spin.
> 
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Minchan Kim
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