Re: [PATCH v3] mm: softdirty: enable write notifications on VMAs after VM_SOFTDIRTY cleared

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sun Aug 24 2014 - 15:22:57 EST


On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:59:24AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
...
> > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> > index c1f2ea4..1b61fbc 100644
> > --- a/mm/mmap.c
> > +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> > @@ -1470,6 +1470,10 @@ int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)
> > return 1;
> >
> > + /* Do we need to track softdirty? */
> > + if (!(vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY))
>
> This will give false-positive if CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled, since
> VM_SOFTDIRTY is 0 in this case:
>
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY) && !(vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY))
>
> Otherwise looks good to me.
>
> Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Really sorry for delay. Thanks a huge, guys!

Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
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