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Subject[RFC PATCH] mm: Fetch the dirty bit before we reset the pte
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In copy_present_page, after we mark the pte non-writable, we should
check for previous dirty bit updates and make sure we don't lose the dirty
bit on reset.

Also, avoid marking the pte write-protected again if copy_present_page
already marked it write-protected.

Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
---
mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index bfe202ef6244..f57b1f04d50a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -848,6 +848,9 @@ copy_present_page(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
if (likely(!page_maybe_dma_pinned(page)))
return 1;

+ if (pte_dirty(*src_pte))
+ pte = pte_mkdirty(pte);
+
/*
* Uhhuh. It looks like the page might be a pinned page,
* and we actually need to copy it. Now we can set the
@@ -904,6 +907,11 @@ copy_present_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
if (retval <= 0)
return retval;

+ /*
+ * Fetch the src pte value again, copy_present_page
+ * could modify it.
+ */
+ pte = *src_pte;
get_page(page);
page_dup_rmap(page, false);
rss[mm_counter(page)]++;
--
2.26.2
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