Re: [PATCH v2] mm: thp: Set the accessed flag for old pages on access fault.

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:01:04PM +0100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue,  2 Oct 2012 17:59:11 +0100
> Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On x86 memory accesses to pages without the ACCESSED flag set result in the
> > ACCESSED flag being set automatically. With the ARM architecture a page access
> > fault is raised instead (and it will continue to be raised until the ACCESSED
> > flag is set for the appropriate PTE/PMD).
> > 
> > For normal memory pages, handle_pte_fault will call pte_mkyoung (effectively
> > setting the ACCESSED flag). For transparent huge pages, pmd_mkyoung will only
> > be called for a write fault.
> > 
> > This patch ensures that faults on transparent hugepages which do not result
> > in a CoW update the access flags for the faulting pmd.
> 
> Alas, the code you're altering has changed so much in linux-next that I
> am reluctant to force this fix in there myself.  Can you please
> redo/retest/resend?  You can do that on 3.7-rc1 if you like, then we
> can feed this into -rc2.

Here's the updated patch against -rc1...

Cheers,

Will

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