From 179ef71cbc085252e3fe6b8159263a7ed1d88ea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:00:49 -0700 Subject: mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages Andy Lutomirski reported that if a page with _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit set get swapped out, the bit is getting lost and no longer available when pte read back. To resolve this we introduce _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit which is saved in pte entry for the page being swapped out. When such page is to be read back from a swap cache we check for bit presence and if it's there we clear it and restore the former _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY bit back. One of the problem was to find a place in pte entry where we can save the _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit while page is in swap. The _PAGE_PSE was chosen for that, it doesn't intersect with swap entry format stored in pte. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/swapops.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/swapops.h b/include/linux/swapops.h index c5fd30d2a41..8d4fa82bfb9 100644 --- a/include/linux/swapops.h +++ b/include/linux/swapops.h @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ static inline swp_entry_t pte_to_swp_entry(pte_t pte) swp_entry_t arch_entry; BUG_ON(pte_file(pte)); + if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(pte)) + pte = pte_swp_clear_soft_dirty(pte); arch_entry = __pte_to_swp_entry(pte); return swp_entry(__swp_type(arch_entry), __swp_offset(arch_entry)); } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2