If page migration is turne on in the config and the page is migrating, we may loose soft dirty bit. If fork and mprotect if called on migrating pages (once migration is complete) pages do not obtain soft dirty bit in correspond pte entries. Fix it adding appropriate test on swap entries. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" --- mm/memory.c | 2 ++ mm/migrate.c | 2 ++ mm/mprotect.c | 7 +++++-- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/memory.c +++ linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c @@ -837,6 +837,8 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s */ make_migration_entry_read(&entry); pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry); + if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*src_pte)) + pte = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(pte); set_pte_at(src_mm, addr, src_pte, pte); } } Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/migrate.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/migrate.c +++ linux-2.6.git/mm/migrate.c @@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ static int remove_migration_pte(struct p get_page(new); pte = pte_mkold(mk_pte(new, vma->vm_page_prot)); + if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*ptep)) + pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte); if (is_write_migration_entry(entry)) pte = pte_mkwrite(pte); #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/mprotect.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/mprotect.c +++ linux-2.6.git/mm/mprotect.c @@ -94,13 +94,16 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(st swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(oldpte); if (is_write_migration_entry(entry)) { + pte_t newpte; /* * A protection check is difficult so * just be safe and disable write */ make_migration_entry_read(&entry); - set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, - swp_entry_to_pte(entry)); + newpte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry); + if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(oldpte)) + newpte = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(newpte); + set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, newpte); } pages++; } -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org