linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Peter Zijlstra d08b3851da [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages
Tracking of dirty pages in shared writeable mmap()s.

The idea is simple: write protect clean shared writeable pages, catch the
write-fault, make writeable and set dirty.  On page write-back clean all the
PTE dirty bits and write protect them once again.

The implementation is a tad harder, mainly because the default
backing_dev_info capabilities were too loosely maintained.  Hence it is not
enough to test the backing_dev_info for cap_account_dirty.

The current heuristic is as follows, a VMA is eligible when:
 - its shared writeable
    (vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)
 - it is not a 'special' mapping
    (vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE)) == 0
 - the backing_dev_info is cap_account_dirty
    mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping)
 - f_op->mmap() didn't change the default page protection

Page from remap_pfn_range() are explicitly excluded because their COW
semantics are already horrid enough (see vm_normal_page() in do_wp_page()) and
because they don't have a backing store anyway.

mprotect() is taught about the new behaviour as well.  However it overrides
the last condition.

Cleaning the pages on write-back is done with page_mkclean() a new rmap call.
It can be called on any page, but is currently only implemented for mapped
pages, if the page is found the be of a VMA that accounts dirty pages it will
also wrprotect the PTE.

Finally, in fs/buffers.c:try_to_free_buffers(); remove clear_page_dirty() from
under ->private_lock.  This seems to be safe, since ->private_lock is used to
serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself.  This is needed because
clear_page_dirty() will call into page_mkclean() and would thereby violate
locking order.

[dhowells@redhat.com: Provide a page_mkclean() implementation for NOMMU]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-arm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-09-24 22:05:59 +01:00
asm-arm26
asm-cris
asm-frv [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-generic [PATCH] trigger a syntax error if percpu macros are incorrectly used 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
asm-h8300
asm-i386 [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] cpu to node relationship fixup: map cpu to node 2006-09-25 17:38:36 -07:00
asm-m32r
asm-m68k
asm-m68knommu
asm-mips
asm-parisc
asm-powerpc [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-ppc
asm-s390 [PATCH] trigger a syntax error if percpu macros are incorrectly used 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
asm-sh
asm-sh64
asm-sparc [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-sparc64 [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-um
asm-v850
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] trigger a syntax error if percpu macros are incorrectly used 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
asm-xtensa
crypto
keys
linux [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
math-emu
media
mtd
net [NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 1) 2006-09-25 15:56:09 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi [PATCH] SCSI gfp_t annotations 2006-09-24 20:07:49 -07:00
sound
video
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