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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] [RFC][v4] Workaround for Xeon Phi PTE A/D bits erratum
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On 07/13/2016 01:37 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> > With the errata, don't you have a situation where a processor in the second
>> > category will write and set D despite P having been cleared (due to the
>> > race) and thus causing us to miss the transfer of that D to the struct
>> > page and essentially completely miss that the physical page is dirty ?
> Seems to me like this is indeed possible, but...

Nevermind, I have read the v3 thread now, where Dave says [1] that
setting the D bit due to the erratum doesn't mean that the page is
really actually written to (it's not). So there shouldn't be any true
dirty bit to leave behind.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146738965614826&w=2

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