On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 03:03:43PM +0900, 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. > > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 3 +++ > arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++ > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) Hi Minchan, arch/arm and arch/arm64 are handled separately. Could you please split this patch into arm and arm64 versions? > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h > index 85c60adc8b60..3a7bb8dc7d05 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h > @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr) > #define pmd_trans_splitting(pmd) (pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_SECT_SPLITTING) > #endif > > +#define pmd_dirty (pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_SECT_DIRTY) This macro is missing the parameter definition, and will generate a compile errror when CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y For 32-bit ARM with CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=n, we don't have THP support and I noticed some compiler errors in mm/madvise.c: CC mm/madvise.o mm/madvise.c: In function ‘madvise_free_pte_range’: mm/madvise.c:279:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pmdp_get_and_clear’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] orig_pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd); ^ mm/madvise.c:285:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pmd_mkold’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] orig_pmd = pmd_mkold(orig_pmd); ^ mm/madvise.c:286:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pmd_mkclean’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] orig_pmd = pmd_mkclean(orig_pmd); ^ mm/madvise.c:288:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘set_pmd_at’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, orig_pmd); ^ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[1]: *** [mm/madvise.o] Error 1 Cheers, -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html