On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:42:44AM -0700, Song Liu wrote: > In previous patch, an application could put part of its text section in > THP via madvise(). These THPs will be protected from writes when the > application is still running (TXTBSY). However, after the application > exits, the file is available for writes. > > This patch avoids writes to file THP by dropping page cache for the file > when the file is open for write. A new counter nr_thps is added to struct > address_space. In do_dentry_open(), if the file is open for write and > nr_thps is non-zero, we drop page cache for the whole file. > > Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
