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Peter Zijlstra d08b3851da [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages
Tracking of dirty pages in shared writeable mmap()s.

The idea is simple: write protect clean shared writeable pages, catch the
write-fault, make writeable and set dirty.  On page write-back clean all the
PTE dirty bits and write protect them once again.

The implementation is a tad harder, mainly because the default
backing_dev_info capabilities were too loosely maintained.  Hence it is not
enough to test the backing_dev_info for cap_account_dirty.

The current heuristic is as follows, a VMA is eligible when:
 - its shared writeable
    (vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)
 - it is not a 'special' mapping
    (vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE)) == 0
 - the backing_dev_info is cap_account_dirty
    mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping)
 - f_op->mmap() didn't change the default page protection

Page from remap_pfn_range() are explicitly excluded because their COW
semantics are already horrid enough (see vm_normal_page() in do_wp_page()) and
because they don't have a backing store anyway.

mprotect() is taught about the new behaviour as well.  However it overrides
the last condition.

Cleaning the pages on write-back is done with page_mkclean() a new rmap call.
It can be called on any page, but is currently only implemented for mapped
pages, if the page is found the be of a VMA that accounts dirty pages it will
also wrprotect the PTE.

Finally, in fs/buffers.c:try_to_free_buffers(); remove clear_page_dirty() from
under ->private_lock.  This seems to be safe, since ->private_lock is used to
serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself.  This is needed because
clear_page_dirty() will call into page_mkclean() and would thereby violate
locking order.

[dhowells@redhat.com: Provide a page_mkclean() implementation for NOMMU]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
..
bootmem.c [PATCH] mm/bootmem.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL 2006-07-10 13:24:17 -07:00
fadvise.c [PATCH] fadvise() make POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE a no-op 2006-08-06 08:57:47 -07:00
filemap_xip.c [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const 2006-06-28 14:59:04 -07:00
filemap.c [PATCH] MM: Remove rogue readahead printk 2006-07-29 20:59:55 -07:00
filemap.h [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero-length iovec segments 2006-06-29 10:26:20 -07:00
fremap.c [PATCH] fix update_mmu_cache in fremap.c 2006-06-23 07:42:52 -07:00
highmem.c [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_bounce to per zone counter 2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
hugetlb.c [PATCH] tightening hugetlb strict accounting 2006-06-23 07:42:48 -07:00
internal.h [PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Kconfig Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2006-06-29 10:49:17 -07:00
madvise.c [PATCH] Fix MADV_REMOVE protection checking 2006-04-17 18:22:18 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] zoned vm counters: create vmstat.c/.h from page_alloc.c/.h 2006-06-30 11:25:34 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: enhance collision check 2006-08-06 08:57:49 -07:00
memory.c [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
mempolicy.c [PATCH] fix NUMA interleaving for huge pages 2006-09-01 11:39:10 -07:00
mempool.c [PATCH] dm: work around mempool_alloc, bio_alloc_bioset deadlocks 2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
migrate.c [PATCH] Allow migration of mlocked pages 2006-06-25 10:00:55 -07:00
mincore.c [PATCH] freepgt: sys_mincore ignore FIRST_USER_PGD_NR 2005-04-19 13:29:20 -07:00
mlock.c [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h 2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
mmap.c [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
mmzone.c [PATCH] mm/mmzone.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL 2006-07-10 13:24:17 -07:00
mprotect.c [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
mremap.c [PATCH] lockdep: annotate mm 2006-07-03 15:27:07 -07:00
msync.c [PATCH] Kill PF_SYNCWRITE flag 2006-06-23 17:10:39 +02:00
nommu.c [PATCH] nommu: export two symbols for drivers to use 2006-07-14 21:53:53 -07:00
oom_kill.c [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct 2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
page_alloc.c [PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
page_io.c [PATCH] Light weight event counters 2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
page-writeback.c [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
pdflush.c [PATCH] pdflush: handle resume wakeups 2006-06-25 10:01:06 -07:00
prio_tree.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
readahead.c spelling fixes 2006-06-26 18:35:02 +02:00
rmap.c [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
shmem.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-06-30 15:39:30 -07:00
slab.c [PATCH] Fix kmem_cache_alloc() been documented twice 2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
slob.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
sparse.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
swap_state.c [PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement 2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
swap.c [PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
swapfile.c [PATCH] swsusp: Fix swap_type_of 2006-08-27 11:01:28 -07:00
thrash.c [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure 2005-11-28 14:42:25 -08:00
tiny-shmem.c [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree 2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
truncate.c [PATCH] invalidate_complete_page() race fix 2006-09-08 10:22:50 -07:00
util.c [PATCH] slab: optimize constant-size kzalloc calls 2006-03-25 08:22:49 -08:00
vmalloc.c [PATCH] mm: fix oom roll-back of __vmalloc_area_node 2006-07-14 21:53:51 -07:00
vmscan.c [PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
vmstat.c [PATCH] ZVC: Scale thresholds depending on the size of the system 2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00