Hugh reported: | I noticed your soft_dirty work in install_file_pte(): which looked | good at first, until I realized that it's propagating the soft_dirty | of a pte it's about to zap completely, to the unrelated entry it's | about to insert in its place. Which seems very odd to me.
Indeed this code ends up being nop in result -- pte_file_mksoft_dirty() operates with pte_t argument and returns new pte_t which were never used after. After looking more I think what we need is to soft-dirtify all newely remapped file pages because it should look like a new mapping for memory tracker. Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> --- mm/fremap.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/fremap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/fremap.c +++ linux-2.6.git/mm/fremap.c @@ -66,13 +66,10 @@ static int install_file_pte(struct mm_st ptfile = pgoff_to_pte(pgoff); - if (!pte_none(*pte)) { - if (pte_present(*pte) && pte_soft_dirty(*pte)) - pte_file_mksoft_dirty(ptfile); + if (!pte_none(*pte)) zap_pte(mm, vma, addr, pte); - } - set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptfile); + set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, pte_file_mksoft_dirty(ptfile)); /* * We don't need to run update_mmu_cache() here because the "file pte" * being installed by install_file_pte() is not a real pte - it's a -- 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/
