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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 19:42:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 19:42:40 -0800
commit7c225c69f86c934e3be9be63ecde754e286838d7 (patch)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc bits - ocfs2 updates - almost all of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (131 commits) memory hotplug: fix comments when adding section mm: make alloc_node_mem_map a void call if we don't have CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP mm: simplify nodemask printing mm,oom_reaper: remove pointless kthread_run() error check mm/page_ext.c: check if page_ext is not prepared writeback: remove unused function parameter mm: do not rely on preempt_count in print_vma_addr mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures mm/hmm: remove redundant variable align_end mm/list_lru.c: mark expected switch fall-through mm/shmem.c: mark expected switch fall-through mm/page_alloc.c: broken deferred calculation mm: don't warn about allocations which stall for too long fs: fuse: account fuse_inode slab memory as reclaimable mm, page_alloc: fix potential false positive in __zone_watermark_ok mm: mlock: remove lru_add_drain_all() mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable shmem: convert shmem_init_inodecache() to void Unify migrate_pages and move_pages access checks mm, pagevec: rename pagevec drained field ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/ksm.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/ksm.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 6cb60f46cce5..be8f4576f842 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1052,8 +1052,13 @@ static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
* So we clear the pte and flush the tlb before the check
* this assure us that no O_DIRECT can happen after the check
* or in the middle of the check.
+ *
+ * No need to notify as we are downgrading page table to read
+ * only not changing it to point to a new page.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
*/
- entry = ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte);
+ entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte);
/*
* Check that no O_DIRECT or similar I/O is in progress on the
* page
@@ -1136,7 +1141,13 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
}
flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(*ptep));
- ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, addr, ptep);
+ /*
+ * No need to notify as we are replacing a read only page with another
+ * read only page with the same content.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ */
+ ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep);
set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, newpte);
page_remove_rmap(page, false);