Commit 9c2ae590 authored by Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar Kirill A. Shutemov Committed by Todd Kjos
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mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()



commit a8f97366 upstream.

Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd().
It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd().

We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry
dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE.

The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[Salvatore Bonaccorso: backport for 4.9:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop specific part for PUD-sized transparent hugepages. Support
   for PUD-sized transparent hugepages was added in v4.11-rc1
]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 5bdf30d3
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