Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:25:42 +0100 |
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> > > > Look in page_mkclean(). Where does it handle non-linear mappings? > > > > OK, I'd forgotten about that. It won't break dirty memory accounting, > but it'll potentially break dirty memory balancing. > > If we have the wrong page (due to nonlinear), page_check_address() will > fail and we'll leave the pte dirty.
It won't even get that far, because it only looks at vmas on mapping->i_mmap, and not on i_mmap_nonlinear.
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