From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 06/37] thp: handle write-protection faults for file THP
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 12:19:09 -0800
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Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
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	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:57:48PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> For filesystems that wants to be write-notified (has mkwrite), we will
> encount write-protection faults for huge PMDs in shared mappings.
> 
> The easiest way to handle them is to clear the PMD and let it refault as
> wriable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

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