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| author | Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> | 2013-08-14 03:00:51 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-08-14 04:57:48 +0400 |
| commit | 41bb3476b361ef38576cf9d539b19bae2ac93167 (patch) | |
| tree | 907f72f0cc27762a9cb9c2857fe6c360524112f9 /arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | |
| parent | 179ef71cbc085252e3fe6b8159263a7ed1d88ea4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-41bb3476b361ef38576cf9d539b19bae2ac93167.tar.xz | |
mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages
Andy reported that if file page get reclaimed we lose the soft-dirty bit
if it was there, so save _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY bit when page address get
encoded into pte entry. Thus when #pf happens on such non-present pte
we can restore it back.
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h index 4cc9f2b7cdc3..81bb91b49a88 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h @@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ static inline pmd_t native_pmdp_get_and_clear(pmd_t *pmdp) /* * Bits 0, 6 and 7 are taken in the low part of the pte, * put the 32 bits of offset into the high part. + * + * For soft-dirty tracking 11 bit is taken from + * the low part of pte as well. */ #define pte_to_pgoff(pte) ((pte).pte_high) #define pgoff_to_pte(off) \ |