[PATCH v14 6/8] arm: add pmd_mkclean for THP

Minchan Kim minchan at kernel.org
Wed Aug 13 18:53:30 PDT 2014


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_mkclean for THP page MADV_FREE support.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index 06e0bc0f8b00..bc913a065270 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ PMD_BIT_FUNC(mkold,	&= ~PMD_SECT_AF);
 PMD_BIT_FUNC(mksplitting, |= L_PMD_SECT_SPLITTING);
 PMD_BIT_FUNC(mkwrite,   &= ~L_PMD_SECT_RDONLY);
 PMD_BIT_FUNC(mkdirty,   |= L_PMD_SECT_DIRTY);
+PMD_BIT_FUNC(mkclean,   &= ~L_PMD_SECT_DIRTY);
 PMD_BIT_FUNC(mkyoung,   |= PMD_SECT_AF);
 
 #define pmd_mkhuge(pmd)		(__pmd(pmd_val(pmd) & ~PMD_TABLE_BIT))
-- 
2.0.0




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