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[PATCH v4 06/16] mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM

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  [PATCH v4 06/16] mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2015-11-20 09:10 +0100

#1273783 — [PATCH v4 06/16] mm: mark stable page dirty in KSM

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 <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
---
 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

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