Thread (67 messages) 67 messages, 4 authors, 2017-02-13

Re: [PATCHv6 06/37] thp: handle write-protection faults for file THP

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2017-02-09 20:19:09
Also in: linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:57:48PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
For filesystems that wants to be write-notified (has mkwrite), we will
encount write-protection faults for huge PMDs in shared mappings.

The easiest way to handle them is to clear the PMD and let it refault as
wriable.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <redacted>
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