On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> wrote: > Andy Lutomirski reported that in case if a page with _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY > bit set get swapped out, the bit is getting lost and no longer > available when pte read back.
Potentially silly question (due to my completely lack of understanding of how swapping works in Linux): what about file-backed pages? (Arguably these would be best supported by filesystems instead of by the core vm, in which case it might make sense to drop soft-dirty support for these pages entirely.) --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
