From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Date: 2014-07-18 06:52:48
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.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <redacted>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <redacted>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org