From f55e1014f9e567d830eb3a7f57d879a34872af4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:01:01 -0800 Subject: Revert "mm, thp: Do not make pmd/pud dirty without a reason" This reverts commit 152e93af3cfe2d29d8136cc0a02a8612507136ee. It was a nice cleanup in theory, but as Nicolai Stange points out, we do need to make the page dirty for the copy-on-write case even when we didn't end up making it writable, since the dirty bit is what we use to check that we've gone through a COW cycle. Reported-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/khugepaged.c') diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c index db43dc8a8ae6..ea4ff259b671 100644 --- a/mm/khugepaged.c +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, pgtable = pmd_pgtable(_pmd); _pmd = mk_huge_pmd(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot); - _pmd = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(_pmd, vma, false); + _pmd = maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(_pmd), vma); /* * spin_lock() below is not the equivalent of smp_wmb(), so -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522