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mm: thp: set the accessed flag for old pages on access fault
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:04:08 +0000 (14:04 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:08:37 +0000 (14:08 +1100)
commit49fd0f957db7074ed60ba9993a6e230b5c866e6d
tree8e13acb63946b5c8d0db3a009ffe01aa2c052a83
parent7a38480ebfd81d9714b64fae9a836d6b11e45627
mm: thp: set the accessed flag for old pages on access fault

On x86 memory accesses to pages without the ACCESSED flag set result in
the ACCESSED flag being set automatically.  With the ARM architecture a
page access fault is raised instead (and it will continue to be raised
until the ACCESSED flag is set for the appropriate PTE/PMD).

For normal memory pages, handle_pte_fault will call pte_mkyoung
(effectively setting the ACCESSED flag).  For transparent huge pages,
pmd_mkyoung will only be called for a write fault.

This patch ensures that faults on transparent hugepages which do not
result in a CoW update the access flags for the faulting pmd.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ni zhan Chen <nizhan.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/huge_mm.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/memory.c