mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages
authorCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:00:49 +0000 (16:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:57:47 +0000 (17:57 -0700)
commit179ef71cbc085252e3fe6b8159263a7ed1d88ea4
tree423b58912b0bf0dc9697fff3d2205b8ca653968e
parent3e6b11df245180949938734bc192eaf32f3a06b3
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 <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
fs/proc/task_mmu.c
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
include/linux/swapops.h
mm/memory.c
mm/rmap.c
mm/swapfile.c