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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2012-11-19 06:14:23 +0400
committerMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-12-11 18:28:34 +0400
commit7da4d641c58d201c3cc1835c05ca1a7fa26f0856 (patch)
treebf40cc40433383ee94559ea2ef19a282dead358f /include/linux/mm.h
parent4fd017708c4a067da51a2b5cf8aedddf4e840b1f (diff)
downloadlinux-7da4d641c58d201c3cc1835c05ca1a7fa26f0856.tar.xz
mm: Count the number of pages affected in change_protection()
This will be used for three kinds of purposes: - to optimize mprotect() - to speed up working set scanning for working set areas that have not been touched - to more accurately scan per real working set No change in functionality from this patch. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index bcaab4e6fe91..1856c62d82cd 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1078,6 +1078,9 @@ extern unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
extern unsigned long do_mremap(unsigned long addr,
unsigned long old_len, unsigned long new_len,
unsigned long flags, unsigned long new_addr);
+extern unsigned long change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
+ int dirty_accountable);
extern int mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct vm_area_struct **pprev, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, unsigned long newflags);