Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi all, I worked on patch which would not touch PSE bit for dirty page > tracking and the result is not that good: > > - 2level pages now always page dirty if page is swapped in and out, because > there is no space left in PTE (other than PSE bit)
Maybe just don't support soft dirty for 2 level page tables? 2 level page tables should be really on the way out anyways, as they have severe limits and do not support NX. With 3 levels there is enough space. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only -- 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/
