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mm/autonuma: let architecture override how the write bit should be st…
…ashed in a protnone pte. Patch series "Numabalancing preserve write fix", v2. This patch series address an issue w.r.t THP migration and autonuma preserve write feature. migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() cannot deal with concurrent modification of the page. It does a page copy without following the migration pte sequence. IIUC, this was done to keep the migration simpler and at the time of implemenation we didn't had THP page cache which would have required a more elaborate migration scheme. That means thp autonuma migration expect the protnone with saved write to be done such that both kernel and user cannot update the page content. This patch series enables archs like ppc64 to do that. We are good with the hash translation mode with the current code, because we never create a hardware page table entry for a protnone pte. This patch (of 2): Autonuma preserves the write permission across numa fault to avoid taking a writefault after a numa fault (Commit: b191f9b " mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault"). Architecture can implement protnone in different ways and some may choose to implement that by clearing Read/ Write/Exec bit of pte. Setting the write bit on such pte can result in wrong behaviour. Fix this up by allowing arch to override how to save the write bit on a protnone pte. [[email protected]: don't mark pte saved write in case of dirty_accountable] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487942884-16517-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com [[email protected]: v3] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487498625-10891-2-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michael Neuling <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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