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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>
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:16:59 +0000 (15:16 +1100)
commit688b272e19e13911d8d6ee283b76c083500c8631
treeea1da2f8b61c4c2a4dd899b4cee84794da0380e4
parentbbb50e4c895fb25b90b041607f590b2f8698ab34
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