The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed after a defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the content of memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit.
This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify() is called only for present pages. Fixes: 0f8975ec4db2 (mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking) Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xe...@parallels.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: Wen Congyang <we...@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <ava...@openvz.org> --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h index a83aa44..1aa9ccd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h @@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ /* Set of bits not changed in pte_modify */ #define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \ - _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY) + _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY | \ + _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY) #define _HPAGE_CHG_MASK (_PAGE_CHG_MASK | _PAGE_PSE) #define _PAGE_CACHE_MASK (_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT) -- 1.8.5.3 -- 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/
