[CRIU] [PATCH] mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect

Andrey Vagin avagin at openvz.org
Wed Jan 29 12:04:59 PST 2014


The SOFT_DIRTY bit shows that the content of memory was changed
after a defined point in the past. mprotect() doesn't change the
content of memory, so it must not change the SOFT_DIRTY bit.

This patch does nothing with _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY, becase pte_modify()
is called only for present pages.

Fixes: 0f8975ec4db2 (mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking)
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov at openvz.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at parallels.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency at cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin at openvz.org>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
index a83aa44..1aa9ccd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@
 
 /* Set of bits not changed in pte_modify */
 #define _PAGE_CHG_MASK	(PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT |		\
-			 _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
+			 _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY |	\
+			 _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY)
 #define _HPAGE_CHG_MASK (_PAGE_CHG_MASK | _PAGE_PSE)
 
 #define _PAGE_CACHE_MASK	(_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
-- 
1.8.5.3



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