On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:54:02 +0100 Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On x86 memory accesses to pages without the ACCESSED flag set result in the > ACCESSED flag being set automatically. With the ARM architecture a page access > fault is raised instead (and it will continue to be raised until the ACCESSED > flag is set for the appropriate PTE/PMD). > > For normal memory pages, handle_pte_fault will call pte_mkyoung (effectively > setting the ACCESSED flag). For transparent huge pages, pmd_mkyoung will only > be called for a write fault. > > This patch ensures that faults on transparent hugepages which do not result > in a CoW update the access flags for the faulting pmd. Confused. Where is the arm implementation of update_mmu_cache_pmd()? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
