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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>thp: account anon transparent huge pages into NR_ANON_PAGES</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T22:38:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:58+00:00</published>
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We use NR_ANON_PAGES as base for reporting AnonPages to user.  There's
not much sense in not accounting transparent huge pages there, but add
them on printing to user.

Let's account transparent huge pages in NR_ANON_PAGES in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ning Qu &lt;quning@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We use NR_ANON_PAGES as base for reporting AnonPages to user.  There's
not much sense in not accounting transparent huge pages there, but add
them on printing to user.

Let's account transparent huge pages in NR_ANON_PAGES in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ning Qu &lt;quning@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>memcg: remove MEMCG_NR_FILE_MAPPED</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T22:38:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sha Zhengju</name>
<email>handai.szj@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T22:13:50+00:00</published>
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While accounting memcg page stat, it's not worth to use
MEMCG_NR_FILE_MAPPED as an extra layer of indirection because of the
complexity and presumed performance overhead.  We can use
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED directly.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju &lt;handai.szj@taobao.com&gt;
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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While accounting memcg page stat, it's not worth to use
MEMCG_NR_FILE_MAPPED as an extra layer of indirection because of the
complexity and presumed performance overhead.  We can use
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED directly.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju &lt;handai.szj@taobao.com&gt;
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/mm: implement software referenced bits</title>
<updated>2013-08-29T11:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-23T20:11:42+00:00</published>
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The last remaining use for the storage key of the s390 architecture
is reference counting. The alternative is to make page table entries
invalid while they are old. On access the fault handler marks the
pte/pmd as young which makes the pte/pmd valid if the access rights
allow read access. The pte/pmd invalidations required for software
managed reference bits cost a bit of performance, on the other hand
the RRBE/RRBM instructions to read and reset the referenced bits are
quite expensive as well.

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The last remaining use for the storage key of the s390 architecture
is reference counting. The alternative is to make page table entries
invalid while they are old. On access the fault handler marks the
pte/pmd as young which makes the pte/pmd valid if the access rights
allow read access. The pte/pmd invalidations required for software
managed reference bits cost a bit of performance, on the other hand
the RRBE/RRBM instructions to read and reset the referenced bits are
quite expensive as well.

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages</title>
<updated>2013-08-14T00:57:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyrill Gorcunov</name>
<email>gorcunov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-13T23:00:51+00:00</published>
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Andy reported that if file page get reclaimed we lose the 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.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Andy reported that if file page get reclaimed we lose the 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.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages</title>
<updated>2013-08-14T00:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyrill Gorcunov</name>
<email>gorcunov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-13T23:00:49+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li &lt;liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove unused VM_&lt;READfoo&gt; macros and expand other in-place</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T17:33:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T23:00:18+00:00</published>
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These VM_&lt;READfoo&gt; macros aren't used very often and three of them
aren't used at all.

Expand the ones that are used in-place, and remove all the now unused
#define VM_&lt;foo&gt; macros.

VM_READHINTMASK, VM_NormalReadHint and VM_ClearReadHint were added just
before 2.4 and appears have never been used.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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These VM_&lt;READfoo&gt; macros aren't used very often and three of them
aren't used at all.

Expand the ones that are used in-place, and remove all the now unused
#define VM_&lt;foo&gt; macros.

VM_READHINTMASK, VM_NormalReadHint and VM_ClearReadHint were added just
before 2.4 and appears have never been used.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove lru parameter from __lru_cache_add and lru_cache_add_lru</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:07:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:02:34+00:00</published>
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Similar to __pagevec_lru_add, this patch removes the LRU parameter from
__lru_cache_add and lru_cache_add_lru as the caller does not control the
exact LRU the page gets added to.  lru_cache_add_lru gets renamed to
lru_cache_add the name is silly without the lru parameter.  With the
parameter removed, it is required that the caller indicate if they want
the page added to the active or inactive list by setting or clearing
PageActive respectively.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Suggested the patch]
[gang.chen@asianux.com: fix used-unintialized warning]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov &lt;alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Perepechko &lt;anserper@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Robin Dong &lt;sanbai@taobao.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Tso &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bernd Schubert &lt;bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Similar to __pagevec_lru_add, this patch removes the LRU parameter from
__lru_cache_add and lru_cache_add_lru as the caller does not control the
exact LRU the page gets added to.  lru_cache_add_lru gets renamed to
lru_cache_add the name is silly without the lru parameter.  With the
parameter removed, it is required that the caller indicate if they want
the page added to the active or inactive list by setting or clearing
PageActive respectively.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Suggested the patch]
[gang.chen@asianux.com: fix used-unintialized warning]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov &lt;alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Perepechko &lt;anserper@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Robin Dong &lt;sanbai@taobao.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Tso &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bernd Schubert &lt;bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rmap: recompute pgoff for unmapping huge page</title>
<updated>2013-04-29T22:54:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hillf Danton</name>
<email>dhillf@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-29T22:06:14+00:00</published>
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We have to recompute pgoff if the given page is huge, since result based
on HPAGE_SIZE is not approapriate for scanning the vma interval tree, as
shown by commit 36e4f20af833 ("hugetlb: do not use vma_hugecache_offset()
for vma_prio_tree_foreach").

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We have to recompute pgoff if the given page is huge, since result based
on HPAGE_SIZE is not approapriate for scanning the vma interval tree, as
shown by commit 36e4f20af833 ("hugetlb: do not use vma_hugecache_offset()
for vma_prio_tree_foreach").

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton &lt;dhillf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/rmap: rename anon_vma_unlock() =&gt; anon_vma_unlock_write()</title>
<updated>2013-02-24T01:50:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@openvz.org</email>
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<published>2013-02-23T00:34:40+00:00</published>
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The comment in commit 4fc3f1d66b1e ("mm/rmap, migration: Make
rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable") says:

| Rename anon_vma_[un]lock() =&gt; anon_vma_[un]lock_write(),
| to make it clearer that it's an exclusive write-lock in
| that case - suggested by Rik van Riel.

But that commit renames only anon_vma_lock()

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The comment in commit 4fc3f1d66b1e ("mm/rmap, migration: Make
rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable") says:

| Rename anon_vma_[un]lock() =&gt; anon_vma_[un]lock_write(),
| to make it clearer that it's an exclusive write-lock in
| that case - suggested by Rik van Riel.

But that commit renames only anon_vma_lock()

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>s390/mm: implement software dirty bits</title>
<updated>2013-02-14T14:55:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-07T12:17:37+00:00</published>
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The s390 architecture is unique in respect to dirty page detection,
it uses the change bit in the per-page storage key to track page
modifications. All other architectures track dirty bits by means
of page table entries. This property of s390 has caused numerous
problems in the past, e.g. see git commit ef5d437f71afdf4a
"mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390".

To avoid future issues in regard to per-page dirty bits convert
s390 to a fault based software dirty bit detection mechanism. All
user page table entries which are marked as clean will be hardware
read-only, even if the pte is supposed to be writable. A write by
the user process will trigger a protection fault which will cause
the user pte to be marked as dirty and the hardware read-only bit
is removed.

With this change the dirty bit in the storage key is irrelevant
for Linux as a host, but the storage key is still required for
KVM guests. The effect is that page_test_and_clear_dirty and the
related code can be removed. The referenced bit in the storage
key is still used by the page_test_and_clear_young primitive to
provide page age information.

For page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty
there will not be any change in behavior as the dirty bit tracking
already uses read-only ptes to control the amount of dirty pages.
Only for swap cache pages and pages of mappings without
mapping_cap_account_dirty there can be additional protection faults.
To avoid an excessive number of additional faults the mk_pte
primitive checks for PageDirty if the pgprot value allows for writes
and pre-dirties the pte. That avoids all additional faults for
tmpfs and shmem pages until these pages are added to the swap cache.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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The s390 architecture is unique in respect to dirty page detection,
it uses the change bit in the per-page storage key to track page
modifications. All other architectures track dirty bits by means
of page table entries. This property of s390 has caused numerous
problems in the past, e.g. see git commit ef5d437f71afdf4a
"mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390".

To avoid future issues in regard to per-page dirty bits convert
s390 to a fault based software dirty bit detection mechanism. All
user page table entries which are marked as clean will be hardware
read-only, even if the pte is supposed to be writable. A write by
the user process will trigger a protection fault which will cause
the user pte to be marked as dirty and the hardware read-only bit
is removed.

With this change the dirty bit in the storage key is irrelevant
for Linux as a host, but the storage key is still required for
KVM guests. The effect is that page_test_and_clear_dirty and the
related code can be removed. The referenced bit in the storage
key is still used by the page_test_and_clear_young primitive to
provide page age information.

For page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty
there will not be any change in behavior as the dirty bit tracking
already uses read-only ptes to control the amount of dirty pages.
Only for swap cache pages and pages of mappings without
mapping_cap_account_dirty there can be additional protection faults.
To avoid an excessive number of additional faults the mk_pte
primitive checks for PageDirty if the pgprot value allows for writes
and pre-dirties the pte. That avoids all additional faults for
tmpfs and shmem pages until these pages are added to the swap cache.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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