Re: [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on file pages

[Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 01:55:04PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Andy reported that if file page get reclaimed we loose soft-dirty bit
>> > if it was there, so save _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY bit when page address
>> > get encoded into pte entry. Thus when #pf happens on such non-present
>> > pte we can restore it back.
>> >
>>
>> Unless I'm misunderstanding this, it's saving the bit in the
>> non-present PTE.  This sounds wrong -- what happens if the entire pmd
>
> It's the same as encoding pgoff in pte entry (pte is not present),
> but together with pgoff we save soft-bit status, later on #pf we decode
> pgoff and restore softbit back if it was there, pte itself can't disappear
> since it holds pgoff information.

Isn't that only the case for nonlinear mappings?

--Andy

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