From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com (mail-pa0-f53.google.com [209.85.220.53]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA97A6B0256 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 20:26:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by pasz6 with SMTP id z6so35623212pas.2 for ; Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:26:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from lgeamrelo12.lge.com (LGEAMRELO12.lge.com. [156.147.23.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rv9si581885pbb.225.2015.11.03.17.26.13 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:26:14 -0800 (PST) From: Minchan Kim Subject: [PATCH v2 07/13] mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 10:26:01 +0900 Message-Id: <1446600367-7976-8-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1446600367-7976-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> References: <1446600367-7976-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Michael Kerrisk , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Mel Gorman , KOSAKI Motohiro , Jason Evans , Daniel Micay , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Shaohua Li , Michal Hocko , yalin.wang2010@gmail.com, Minchan Kim The MADV_FREE patchset changes page reclaim to simply free a clean anonymous page with no dirty ptes, instead of swapping it out; but KSM uses clean write-protected ptes to reference the stable ksm page. So be sure to mark that page dirty, so it's never mistakenly discarded. [hughd: adjusted comments] Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim --- mm/ksm.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 7ee101eaacdf..18d2b7afecff 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -1053,6 +1053,12 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, */ set_page_stable_node(page, NULL); mark_page_accessed(page); + /* + * Page reclaim just frees a clean page with no dirty + * ptes: make sure that the ksm page would be swapped. + */ + if (!PageDirty(page)) + SetPageDirty(page); err = 0; } else if (pages_identical(page, kpage)) err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org