Re: [patch 1/3] [PATCH] mm: migration -- Do not loose soft dirty bit if page is in migration state

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:11:40AM -0400, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/memory.c
> > +++ linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c
> > @@ -837,6 +837,8 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s
> >  					 */
> >  					make_migration_entry_read(&entry);
> >  					pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
> > +					if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*src_pte))
> > +						pte = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(pte);
> >  					set_pte_at(src_mm, addr, src_pte, pte);
> >  				}
> >  			}
> 
> When we convert pte to swap_entry, we convert soft-dirty bit in
> pte_to_swp_entry(). So I think that it's better to convert it back
> in swp_entry_to_pte() when we do swap_entry-to-pte conversion.

No, soft dirty bit lays _only_ inside pte entry in memory, iow
swp_entry_t never has this bit, thus to be able to find soft dirty
status in swp_entry_to_pte you need to extend this function and
pass pte entry itself as an argument, which eventually will bring
more massive patch and will be a way more confusing I think.

Or I misunderstood you?

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