The patch titled Subject: mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: no need to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY in clear_soft_dirty_pmd() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-proc-pid-clear_refs-no-need-to-clear-vm_softdirty-in-clear_soft_dirty_pmd.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-proc-pid-clear_refs-no-need-to-clear-vm_softdirty-in-clear_soft_dirty_pmd.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-proc-pid-clear_refs-no-need-to-clear-vm_softdirty-in-clear_soft_dirty_pmd.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: /proc/pid/clear_refs: no need to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY in clear_soft_dirty_pmd() clear_soft_dirty_pmd() is called by clear_refs_write(CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY), VM_SOFTDIRTY was already cleared before walk_page_range(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/proc/task_mmu.c~mm-proc-pid-clear_refs-no-need-to-clear-vm_softdirty-in-clear_soft_dirty_pmd fs/proc/task_mmu.c --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~mm-proc-pid-clear_refs-no-need-to-clear-vm_softdirty-in-clear_soft_dirty_pmd +++ a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -881,9 +881,6 @@ static inline void clear_soft_dirty_pmd( pmd = pmd_wrprotect(pmd); pmd = pmd_clear_soft_dirty(pmd); - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY) - vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_SOFTDIRTY; - set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp, pmd); } #else _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-proc-pid-clear_refs-no-need-to-clear-vm_softdirty-in-clear_soft_dirty_pmd.patch ptrace-make-wait_on_bitjobctl_trapping_bit-in-ptrace_attach-killable.patch ptrace-task_stopped_codeptrace-=-true-cant-see-task_stopped-task.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html