Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:37:34 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
        Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 09:23:14AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Andy Lutomirski reported that in case 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.
> 
> Potentially silly question (due to my completely lack of understanding
> of how swapping works in Linux): what about file-backed pages?
> (Arguably these would be best supported by filesystems instead of by
> the core vm, in which case it might make sense to drop soft-dirty
> support for these pages entirely.)

Hi Andy, if I understand you correctly "file-backed pages" are carried
in pte with _PAGE_FILE bit set and the swap soft-dirty bit won't be
used on them but _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY will be set on write if only I've
not missed something obvious (Pavel?).
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