Re: [PATCH v2] mm: thp: Set the accessed flag for old pages on access fault.
From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2012-10-04 22:13:19
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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2012-10-04 22:13:19
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 05:59:11PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
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. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted> Cc: Chris Metcalf <redacted> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <redacted> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <redacted>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted> -- Kirill A. Shutemov