Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 6 authors, 2012-12-06

Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Generate events when tasks change their memory

From: Pavel Emelyanov <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-04 05:05:42

On 12/04/2012 03:42 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
On 12/01/2012 01:55 AM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
quoted
 	case MADV_DOTRACE:
+		/*
+		 * Protect pages to be read-only and force tasks to generate
+		 * #PFs on modification.
+		 *
+		 * It should be done before issuing trace-on event. Otherwise
+		 * we're leaving a short window after the 'on' event when tasks
+		 * can still modify pages.
+		 */
+		change_protection(vma, start, end,
+				vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags & ~VM_READ),
+				vma_wants_writenotify(vma));
Should be VM_WRITE?
Ooops! Yes, sure. I guess I accidentally broke it while cleaning/splitting patch :(

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