Re: [PATCH v2] mm: fix double page fault on arm64 if PTE_AF is cleared

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Sep 09 2019 - 17:28:44 EST


On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 09:57:47PM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> + if (!pte_young(vmf->orig_pte)) {
> + entry = pte_mkyoung(vmf->orig_pte);
> + if (ptep_set_access_flags(vmf->vma, vmf->address,
> + vmf->pte, entry, 0))
> + update_mmu_cache(vmf->vma, vmf->address,
> + vmf->pte);
> + }
> +

Oh, btw, why call update_mmu_cache() here? All you've done is changed
the 'accessed' bit. What is any architecture supposed to do in response
to this?