From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, david@redhat.com,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Set only the PTE_DIRTY bit while preserving the HW dirty state
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:23:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZLrNKTqFgeK98lRS@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230713071518.628440-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 12:45:18PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> pte_mkdirty() creates dirty states both in SW and HW bits, which is really
> not required, either in pte_wrprotect() or pte_modify() for preserving the
> HW dirty state. Because pte_mkdirty() sets PTE_DIRTY and clears PTE_RDONLY
> as pte_write() always evaluates to be true - otherwise pte_hw_dirty() will
> not test out in the first place. Clearing PTE_RDONLY again is not required
> here because the pte is already in pte_hw_dirty() but might soon loose its
> dirty state thus requiring preservation in SW dirty bit i.e PTE_DIRTY.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-13 7:15 [PATCH] arm64/mm: Set only the PTE_DIRTY bit while preserving the HW dirty state Anshuman Khandual
2023-07-13 12:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-07-21 18:23 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2023-07-27 12:22 ` Will Deacon
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