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authorPaul Gofman <pgofman@codeweavers.com>2024-02-06 13:48:01 +0500
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-02-22 10:24:55 -0800
commit055267feaecc9c6c53f128aa50746f64c4ef5ca2 (patch)
treea53748b7b3f09a990ad43cf4ad1212068456f4b6 /mm/migrate.c
parenta230c20e63efef3daab510979898b25a0e446b36 (diff)
downloadlinux-055267feaecc9c6c53f128aa50746f64c4ef5ca2.tar.gz
mm/migrate: preserve exact soft-dirty state
pte_mkdirty() sets both _PAGE_DIRTY and _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bits. The _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY can get set even if it wasn't set on original page before migration. This makes non-soft-dirty pages soft-dirty just because of migration/compaction. Clear the _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY flag if it wasn't set on original page. By definition of soft-dirty feature, there can be spurious soft-dirty pages because of kernel's internal activity such as VMA merging or migration/compaction. This patch is eliminating the spurious soft-dirty pages because of migration/compaction. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240206084838.34560-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Paul Gofman <pgofman@codeweavers.com> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com> Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Michał Mirosław <emmir@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index cc9f2bcd73b49..05d6ca4373215 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -211,14 +211,17 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
folio_get(folio);
pte = mk_pte(new, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
- if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(old_pte))
- pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
entry = pte_to_swp_entry(old_pte);
if (!is_migration_entry_young(entry))
pte = pte_mkold(pte);
if (folio_test_dirty(folio) && is_migration_entry_dirty(entry))
pte = pte_mkdirty(pte);
+ if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(old_pte))
+ pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
+ else
+ pte = pte_clear_soft_dirty(pte);
+
if (is_writable_migration_entry(entry))
pte = pte_mkwrite(pte, vma);
else if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(old_pte))