Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: Remember young/dirty bit for page migrations

[Peter Xu]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 04:40:12PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> > @@ -2160,6 +2167,12 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
> >  				entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
> >  			if (!young)
> >  				entry = pte_mkold(entry);
> > +			if (dirty)
> > +				/*
> > +				 * NOTE: this may contains setting soft
> > +				 * dirty too on some archs like x86.
> > +				 */
> 
> Personally, I prefer to put comments above "if (dirty)".  But you can
> choose your favorite way unless it violates coding style.

Sure.

> 
> > +				entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
> 
> We don't track dirty flag even for normal PTE before.  So I think we
> should separate the dirty flag tracking for normal PTE in a separate
> patch.

It's kinda convenient to touch that up, but for sure I can split that into
a tiny but separate patch too.

[...]

> I don't find pte_dirty() is synced to PageDirty() as in
> try_to_migrate_one().  Is it a issue in the original code?

I think it has?  There is:

		/* Set the dirty flag on the folio now the pte is gone. */
		if (pte_dirty(pteval))
			folio_mark_dirty(folio);

?

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu