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[PATCH v5 07/12] x86: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP

From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Date: 2015-11-30 06:40:06
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Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

MADV_FREE needs pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for detecting recent overwrite
of the contents since MADV_FREE syscall is called for THP page.

This patch adds pmd_dirty and pmd_mkclean for THP page MADV_FREE
support.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index a8d1aa3a43b0..9ff592003afd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mkold(pmd_t pmd)
 	return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_ACCESSED);
 }
 
+static inline pmd_t pmd_mkclean(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+	return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY);
+}
+
 static inline pmd_t pmd_wrprotect(pmd_t pmd)
 {
 	return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_RW);
-- 
1.9.1

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