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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>,
	Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] mm: tracking dirty pages -v8
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:21:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060613112120.27913.71986.sendpatchset@lappy> (raw)

The latest version of the tracking dirty pages patch-set.

This version handles VM_PFNMAP vmas and the COW case of shared RO mappings.

follow_page() got a comment for being weird, but in the light of the 
set_page_dirty() call that can not yet be removed does something sane.

copy_one_pte() also does the right thing, although I wonder why it clears
the dirty bit for children?

f_op->open() - sets a backing_dev_info
f_op->mmap() - modifies both vma->vm_flags and vma->vm_page_prot

Since our condition depends on both the backing_dev_info and vma->vm_flags
it cannot set vma->vm_page_prot before f_op->mmap().

However this means that !VM_PFNMAP vmas that are shared writable but do not
provide a f_op->nopage() and whos backing_dev_info does not have 
BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY, are left writable.

Peter

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             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-13 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-13 11:21 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2006-06-13 11:21 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: tracking shared dirty pages Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-13 11:21 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: balance " Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-13 11:21 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: msync() cleanup Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-13 11:22 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm: optimize the new mprotect() code a bit Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-13 11:22 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: small cleanup of install_page() Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-13 11:22 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: remove some update_mmu_cache() calls Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-13 11:22 ` [PATCH 7/6] mm: page_mkwrite Peter Zijlstra

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