Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935071AbbKTIHT (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:07:19 -0500 Received: from LGEAMRELO12.lge.com ([156.147.23.52]:43062 "EHLO lgeamrelo12.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161089AbbKTICs (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:02:48 -0500 X-Original-SENDERIP: 156.147.1.121 X-Original-MAILFROM: minchan@kernel.org X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.223.161 X-Original-MAILFROM: minchan@kernel.org From: Minchan Kim To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Michael Kerrisk , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Mel Gorman , KOSAKI Motohiro , Jason Evans , Daniel Micay , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Shaohua Li , Michal Hocko , yalin.wang2010@gmail.com, Andy Lutomirski , Minchan Kim Subject: [PATCH v4 06/16] mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:02:38 +0900 Message-Id: <1448006568-16031-7-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1448006568-16031-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> References: <1448006568-16031-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1264 Lines: 37 The MADV_FREE patchset changes page reclaim to simply free a clean anonymous page with no dirty ptes, instead of swapping it out; but KSM uses clean write-protected ptes to reference the stable ksm page. So be sure to mark that page dirty, so it's never mistakenly discarded. [hughd: adjusted comments] Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim --- mm/ksm.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 7ee101eaacdf..18d2b7afecff 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -1053,6 +1053,12 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, */ set_page_stable_node(page, NULL); mark_page_accessed(page); + /* + * Page reclaim just frees a clean page with no dirty + * ptes: make sure that the ksm page would be swapped. + */ + if (!PageDirty(page)) + SetPageDirty(page); err = 0; } else if (pages_identical(page, kpage)) err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/