The patch titled Subject: mm/ksm.c: mark stable page dirty has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-mark-stable-page-dirty-in-ksm.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/ksm.c: mark stable page dirty The MADV_FREE patchset changes page reclaim to simply free a clean anonymous page with no dirty ptes, instead of swapping it out; but KSM uses clean write-protected ptes to reference the stable ksm page. So be sure to mark that page dirty, so it's never mistakenly discarded. [hughd@xxxxxxxxxx: adjusted comments] Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <yalin.wang2010@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Evans <je@xxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mika Penttil <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/ksm.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/ksm.c~mm-mark-stable-page-dirty-in-ksm mm/ksm.c --- a/mm/ksm.c~mm-mark-stable-page-dirty-in-ksm +++ a/mm/ksm.c @@ -1013,6 +1013,12 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct */ set_page_stable_node(page, NULL); mark_page_accessed(page); + /* + * Page reclaim just frees a clean page with no dirty + * ptes: make sure that the ksm page would be swapped. + */ + if (!PageDirty(page)) + SetPageDirty(page); err = 0; } else if (pages_identical(page, kpage)) err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are -- 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