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authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>2013-08-13 16:00:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-08-13 17:57:47 -0700
commit179ef71cbc085252e3fe6b8159263a7ed1d88ea4 (patch)
tree423b58912b0bf0dc9697fff3d2205b8ca653968e /mm/memory.c
parent3e6b11df245180949938734bc192eaf32f3a06b3 (diff)
downloadlinux-179ef71cbc085252e3fe6b8159263a7ed1d88ea4.tar.gz
mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages
Andy Lutomirski reported that if a page with _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit set
get swapped out, the bit is getting lost and no longer available when
pte read back.

To resolve this we introduce _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit which is saved in
pte entry for the page being swapped out.  When such page is to be read
back from a swap cache we check for bit presence and if it's there we
clear it and restore the former _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit back.

One of the problem was to find a place in pte entry where we can save
the _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit while page is in swap.  The _PAGE_PSE was
chosen for that, it doesn't intersect with swap entry format stored in
pte.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 1ce2e2a734fc..e98ecad2b9c8 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3115,6 +3115,8 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		exclusive = 1;
 	}
 	flush_icache_page(vma, page);
+	if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(orig_pte))
+		pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
 	set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, pte);
 	if (page == swapcache)
 		do_page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, address, exclusive);