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Commit 0bf07331 authored by Cyrill Gorcunov's avatar Cyrill Gorcunov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: softdirty: make freshly remapped file pages being softdirty unconditionally



Hugh reported:

 | I noticed your soft_dirty work in install_file_pte(): which looked
 | good at first, until I realized that it's propagating the soft_dirty
 | of a pte it's about to zap completely, to the unrelated entry it's
 | about to insert in its place.  Which seems very odd to me.

Indeed this code ends up being nop in result -- pte_file_mksoft_dirty()
operates with pte_t argument and returns new pte_t which were never used
after.  After looking more I think what we need is to soft-dirtify all
newely remapped file pages because it should look like a new mapping for
memory tracker.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Reported-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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