On 04/16/2012 10:14 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
This patch is horribly ugly and there has to be a better way of doing it. I'm looking for suggestions on what s390 can do here that is not painful or broken.
I'm hoping the S390 arch maintainers have an idea. Ugly or not, we'll need something to fix the bug.
+ * When the late PTE has gone, s390 must transfer the dirty flag from the + * storage key to struct page. We can usually skip this if the page is anon, + * so about to be freed; but perhaps not if it's in swapcache - there might + * be another pte slot containing the swap entry, but page not yet written to + * swap. * - * The caller needs to hold the pte lock. + * set_page_dirty() is called while the page_mapcount is still postive and + * under the page lock to avoid races with the mapping being invalidated. */ -void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page) +static void propogate_storage_key(struct page *page, bool lock_required)
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