The patch titled i386 mm: use pte_update() in ptep_test_and_clear_dirty() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is i386-mm-use-pte_update-in-ptep_test_and_clear_dirty.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: i386 mm: use pte_update() in ptep_test_and_clear_dirty() From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> It is not safe to use pte_update_defer() in ptep_test_and_clear_young(): its only user, /proc/<pid>/clear_refs, drops pte lock before flushing TLB. Use the safe though less efficient pte_update() paravirtop in its place. Likewise in ptep_test_and_clear_dirty(), though that has no current use. These are macros (header file dependency stops them from becoming inline functions), so be more liberal with the underscores and parentheses. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-i386/pgtable.h | 26 ++++++++++++++------------ 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN include/asm-i386/pgtable.h~i386-mm-use-pte_update-in-ptep_test_and_clear_dirty include/asm-i386/pgtable.h --- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h~i386-mm-use-pte_update-in-ptep_test_and_clear_dirty +++ a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h @@ -295,22 +295,24 @@ do { \ #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_DIRTY #define ptep_test_and_clear_dirty(vma, addr, ptep) ({ \ - int ret = 0; \ - if (pte_dirty(*ptep)) \ - ret = test_and_clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_DIRTY, &ptep->pte_low); \ - if (ret) \ - pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep); \ - ret; \ + int __ret = 0; \ + if (pte_dirty(*(ptep))) \ + __ret = test_and_clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_DIRTY, \ + &(ptep)->pte_low); \ + if (__ret) \ + pte_update((vma)->vm_mm, addr, ptep); \ + __ret; \ }) #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG #define ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep) ({ \ - int ret = 0; \ - if (pte_young(*ptep)) \ - ret = test_and_clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_ACCESSED, &ptep->pte_low); \ - if (ret) \ - pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep); \ - ret; \ + int __ret = 0; \ + if (pte_young(*(ptep))) \ + __ret = test_and_clear_bit(_PAGE_BIT_ACCESSED, \ + &(ptep)->pte_low); \ + if (__ret) \ + pte_update((vma)->vm_mm, addr, ptep); \ + __ret; \ }) /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx are mount-t-tmpfs-o-mpol=-check-nodes-online.patch i386-mm-use-pte_update-in-ptep_test_and_clear_dirty.patch x86_64-acpi-disable-srat-when-numa-emulation-succeeds-fix.patch rework-ptep_set_access_flags-and-fix-sun4c.patch rework-ptep_set_access_flags-and-fix-sun4c-fix.patch rework-ptep_set_access_flags-and-fix-sun4c-fix-fix.patch unmap_vm_area-becomes-unmap_kernel_range-for-the-public.patch numa-mempolicy-dynamic-interleave-map-for-system-init.patch add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated.patch hugetlbfs-use-lib-parser-fix-docs.patch ext2-reservations.patch ext2-balloc-use-io_error-label.patch add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-swap-prefetch.patch coredump-masking-bound-suid_dumpable-sysctl.patch coredump-masking-reimplementation-of-dumpable-using-two-flags.patch coredump-masking-reimplementation-of-dumpable-using-two-flags-fix.patch coredump-masking-add-an-interface-for-core-dump-filter.patch coredump-masking-elf-enable-core-dump-filtering.patch coredump-masking-elf-fdpic-remove-an-unused-argument.patch coredump-masking-elf-fdpic-enable-core-dump-filtering.patch coredump-masking-documentation-for-proc-pid-coredump_filter.patch prio_tree-debugging-patch.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