| From: |
| Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
| To: |
| linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH 0/6] mm: tracking dirty pages -v9 |
| Date: |
| Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:52:43 +0200 |
| Cc: |
| Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>,
Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |
The latest version of the tracking dirty pages patch-set.
On request against -mm.
This version handles VM_PFNMAP vmas and the COW case of shared RO mappings.
follow_page() got a comment for being weird, but in the light of the
set_page_dirty() call that can not yet be removed does something sane.
copy_one_pte() also does the right thing, although I wonder why it clears
the dirty bit for children?
f_op->open() - sets a backing_dev_info
f_op->mmap() - modifies both vma->vm_flags and vma->vm_page_prot
Since our condition depends on both the backing_dev_info and vma->vm_flags
it cannot set vma->vm_page_prot before f_op->mmap().
However this means that !VM_PFNMAP vmas that are shared writable but do not
provide a f_op->nopage() and whos backing_dev_info does not have
BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY, are left writable.
Peter
