On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 05:59:11PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On x86 memory accesses to pages without the ACCESSED flag set result in the
> ACCESSED flag being set automatically. With the ARM architecture a page access
> fault is raised instead (and it will continue to be raised until the ACCESSED
> flag is set for the appropriate PTE/PMD).
> 
> For normal memory pages, handle_pte_fault will call pte_mkyoung (effectively
> setting the ACCESSED flag). For transparent huge pages, pmd_mkyoung will only
> be called for a write fault.
> 
> This patch ensures that faults on transparent hugepages which do not result
> in a CoW update the access flags for the faulting pmd.
> 
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.cap...@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kir...@shutemov.name>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to