From c2c93e5b7f3f42277ec25ff3746096abc0c0d0f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Capper Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:07:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Introduce PTE_WRITE We have the following means for encoding writable or dirty ptes: PTE_DIRTY PTE_RDONLY !pte_dirty && !pte_write 0 1 !pte_dirty && pte_write 0 1 pte_dirty && !pte_write 1 1 pte_dirty && pte_write 1 0 So we can't distinguish between writable clean ptes and read only ptes. This can cause problems with ptes being incorrectly flagged as read only when they are writable but not dirty. This patch introduces a new software bit PTE_WRITE which allows us to correctly identify writable ptes. PTE_RDONLY is now only clear for valid ptes where a page is both writable and dirty. Signed-off-by: Steve Capper Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas --- Reading git-format-patch failed