[PATCH v14 7/8] arm64: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Aug 15 03:55:51 PDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 02:53:31AM +0100, Minchan Kim wrote:
> 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.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>



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