Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared

[Peter Feiner]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 02:50:58AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> One more case to consider: mprotect() which doesn't trigger successful
> vma_merge() will not set VM_SOFTDIRTY and will not enable write-protect on
> the vma.
> 
> It's probably better to take VM_SOFTDIRTY into account in
> vma_wants_writenotify() and re-think logic in other corners.

Merge or not, write notifications get disabled! I'll fix this too :-)

Peter
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