Currently PMD pages can be dirtied via pmd_mkdirty(), but cannot be
cleaned. For DAX mmap dirty page tracking we need to be able to clean PMD
pages when we flush them to media so that we get a new write fault the next
time the are written to.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 867da5b..c548e4c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdirty(pmd_t pmd)
return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
}
+static inline pmd_t pmd_mkclean(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+ return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
+}
+
static inline pmd_t pmd_mkhuge(pmd_t pmd)
{
return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_PSE);
--
2.1.0
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