mm: thp: set the accessed flag for old pages on access fault pandora-3.2-hugetlb
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:01:27 +0000 (16:01 -0800)
committerGrazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:56:02 +0000 (19:56 +0200)
commit0cabcc8c87d530862e51933a71873e6e988b2cd0
tree95ca02234820b6539d9ba364737a63e63822eee4
parent4eb29a0029587eab27d3ac88e5736cda6246c3f1
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Conflicts:

mm/huge_memory.c
include/linux/huge_mm.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/memory.c