On 04/25/2015 01:45 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: > If a PTE is unmapped and it's dirty then it was writable recently. Due > to deferred TLB flushing, it's best to assume a writable TLB cache entry > exists. With that assumption, the TLB must be flushed before any IO can > start or the page is freed to avoid lost writes or data corruption. This > patch defers flushing of potentially writable TLBs as long as possible. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
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