Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking

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On 05/01/2013 12:12 AM, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:

> +static inline void clear_soft_dirty(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +		unsigned long addr, pte_t *pte)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
> +	/*
> +	 * The soft-dirty tracker uses #PF-s to catch writes
> +	 * to pages, so write-protect the pte as well. See the
> +	 * Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for full description
> +	 * of how soft-dirty works.
> +	 */
> +	pte_t ptent = *pte;
> +	ptent = pte_wrprotect(ptent);
> +	ptent = pte_clear_flags(ptent, _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
> +	set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte, ptent);
> +#endif

It seems that TLBs are not flushed and mmu-notification is not called?

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