On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:25:11AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Long introductory phrases usually merit a comma after them.
Ah, I see, thanks! --- From: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Subject: [PATCH] docs: Document soft dirty behaviour for freshly created memory regions Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Mackall <[email protected]> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <[email protected]> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> --- Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.git/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt +++ linux-2.6.git/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ This is so, since the pages are still ma the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts both writable and soft-dirty bits on the PTE. + While in most cases tracking memory changes by #PF-s is more than enough, +there is still a scenario when we can lose soft dirty bits -- a task +unmaps a previously mapped memory region and then maps a new one at exactly +the same place. When unmap is called, the kernel internally clears PTE values +including soft dirty bits. To notify user space application about such +memory region renewal the kernel always marks new memory regions (and +expanded regions) as soft dirty. This feature is actively used by the checkpoint-restore project. You can find more details about it on http://criu.org -- 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/
