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Thomas Hellstrom authored
Add two utilities to a) write-protect and b) clean all ptes pointing into a range of an address space. The utilities are intended to aid in tracking dirty pages (either driver-allocated system memory or pci device memory). The write-protect utility should be used in conjunction with page_mkwrite() and pfn_mkwrite() to trigger write page-faults on page accesses. Typically one would want to use this on sparse accesses into large memory regions. The clean utility should be used to utilize hardware dirtying functionality and avoid the overhead of page-faults, typically on large accesses into small memory regions. The added file "as_dirty_helpers.c" is initially listed as maintained by VMware under our DRM driver. If somebody would like it elsewhere, that's of course no problem. Notable changes since RFC: - Added comments to help avoid the usage of these function for VMAs it's not intended for. We also do advisory checks on the vm_flags and warn on illegal usage. - Perform the pte modifications the same way softdirty does. - Add mmu_notifier range invalidation calls. - Add a config option so that this code is not unconditionally included. - Tell the mmu_gather code about pending tlb flushes. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> #v1
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