The patch titled
mm: remove some update_mmu_cache() calls
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-remove-some-update_mmu_cache-calls.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: mm: remove some update_mmu_cache() calls
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
This may be a bit controversial but it does not seem to make sense to use the
update_mmu_cache macro when we reuse the page. We are only fiddling around
with the protections, the dirty and accessed bits.
With the call to update_mmu_cache the way of using the macros would be
different from mprotect() and page_mkclean(). I'd rather have everything work
the same way. If this breaks on some arches then also mprotect and
page_mkclean() are broken. The use of mprotect() is rare, we may have
breakage in some arches that we just have not seen yet.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-remove-some-update_mmu_cache-calls mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-remove-some-update_mmu_cache-calls
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -1514,7 +1514,6 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
entry = pte_mkyoung(orig_pte);
entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, page_table, entry, 1);
- update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;
goto unlock;
@@ -2314,7 +2313,6 @@ static inline int handle_pte_fault(struc
entry = pte_mkyoung(entry);
if (!pte_same(old_entry, entry)) {
ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, pte, entry, write_access);
- update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
} else {
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from clameter@xxxxxxx are
page-migration-make-do_swap_page-redo-the-fault.patch
slab-extract-cache_free_alien-from-__cache_free.patch
migration-remove-unnecessary-pageswapcache-checks.patch
page-migration-cleanup-rename-ignrefs-to-migration.patch
page-migration-cleanup-group-functions.patch
page-migration-cleanup-remove-useless-definitions.patch
page-migration-cleanup-drop-nr_refs-in-remove_references.patch
page-migration-cleanup-extract-try_to_unmap-from-migration-functions.patch
page-migration-cleanup-pass-mapping-to-migration-functions.patch
page-migration-cleanup-move-fallback-handling-into-special-function.patch
swapless-pm-add-r-w-migration-entries.patch
swapless-page-migration-rip-out-swap-based-logic.patch
swapless-page-migration-modify-core-logic.patch
more-page-migration-do-not-inc-dec-rss-counters.patch
more-page-migration-use-migration-entries-for-file-pages.patch
page-migration-update-documentation.patch
mm-remove-vm_locked-before-remap_pfn_range-and-drop-vm_shm.patch
page-migration-simplify-migrate_pages.patch
page-migration-handle-freeing-of-pages-in-migrate_pages.patch
page-migration-use-allocator-function-for-migrate_pages.patch
page-migration-support-moving-of-individual-pages.patch
page-migration-support-moving-of-individual-pages-x86_64-support.patch
page-migration-support-moving-of-individual-pages-x86-support.patch
page-migration-support-a-vma-migration-function.patch
allow-migration-of-mlocked-pages.patch
mm-remove-some-update_mmu_cache-calls.patch
zoned-vm-counters-create-vmstatc-h-from-page_allocc-h.patch
zoned-vm-counters-basic-zvc-zoned-vm-counter-implementation.patch
zoned-vm-counters-basic-zvc-zoned-vm-counter-implementation-tidy.patch
zoned-vm-counters-convert-nr_mapped-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_pagecache-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-remove-nr_file_mapped-from-scan-control-structure.patch
zoned-vm-counters-remove-nr_file_mapped-from-scan-control-structure-fix.patch
zoned-vm-counters-split-nr_anon_pages-off-from-nr_file_mapped.patch
zoned-vm-counters-zone_reclaim-remove-proc-sys-vm-zone_reclaim_interval.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_slab-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_pagetables-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_dirty-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_writeback-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_unstable-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-conversion-of-nr_bounce-to-per-zone-counter.patch
zoned-vm-counters-remove-useless-struct-wbs.patch
selinux-add-task_movememory-hook.patch
selinux-add-security_task_movememory-calls-to-mm-code.patch
cpuset-remove-extra-cpuset_zone_allowed-check-in-__alloc_pages.patch
corrections-to-memory-barrier-doc.patch
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