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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm: thp: Set the accessed flag for old pages on access fault.
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 05:59:11PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On x86 memory accesses to pages without the ACCESSED flag set result in the
> ACCESSED flag being set automatically. With the ARM architecture a page access
> fault is raised instead (and it will continue to be raised until the ACCESSED
> flag is set for the appropriate PTE/PMD).
>
> For normal memory pages, handle_pte_fault will call pte_mkyoung (effectively
> setting the ACCESSED flag). For transparent huge pages, pmd_mkyoung will only
> be called for a write fault.
>
> This patch ensures that faults on transparent hugepages which do not result
> in a CoW update the access flags for the faulting pmd.
>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---
>
> v2: - Use pmd_trans_huge_lock to guard against splitting pmds
> - Propogate dirty (write) flag to low-level pmd modifier
>
> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 2 ++
> mm/huge_memory.c | 8 ++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>


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