Re: [PATCH] mm: Don't forget to set softdirty on file mapped fault

From: Pavel Emelyanov
Date: Tue Jul 08 2014 - 15:28:43 EST


On 07/08/2014 11:21 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Otherwise we may not notice that pte was softdirty because pte_mksoft_dirty
> helper _returns_ new pte but not modifies argument.
>
> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/memory.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/memory.c
> +++ linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ void do_set_pte(struct vm_area_struct *v
> if (write)
> entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
> else if (pte_file(*pte) && pte_file_soft_dirty(*pte))
> - pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
> + entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
> if (anon) {
> inc_mm_counter_fast(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
> page_add_new_anon_rmap(page, vma, address);
> .
>

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