[PATCH] powerpc/64s/radix: Fix soft dirty tracking

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Mon Jul 3 15:21:16 AEST 2023


On Thu, 11 May 2023 21:42:24 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> It was reported that soft dirty tracking doesn't work when using the
> Radix MMU.
> 
> The tracking is supposed to work by clearing the soft dirty bit for a
> mapping and then write protecting the PTE. If/when the page is written
> to, a page fault occurs and the soft dirty bit is added back via
> pte_mkdirty(). For example in wp_page_reuse():
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/fixes.

[1/1] powerpc/64s/radix: Fix soft dirty tracking
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/66b2ca086210732954a7790d63d35542936fc664

cheers


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