[PATCH] s390: physical dirty/referenced bits.
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> this is another s/390 related mm patch. It introduces the concept of physical dirty and referenced bits into the common mm code. I always had the nagging feeling that the pte functions for setting/clearing the dirty and referenced bits are not appropriate for s/390. It works but it is a bit of a hack. After the wake of rmap it is now possible to put a much better solution into place. The idea is simple: since there are not dirty/referenced bits in the pte make these function nops on s/390 and add operations on the physical page to the appropriate places. For the referenced bit this is the page_referenced() function. For the dirty bit there are two relevant spots: in page_remove_rmap after the last user of the page removed its reverse mapping and in try_to_unmap after the last user was unmapped. There are two new functions to accomplish this: * page_test_and_clear_dirty: Test and clear the dirty bit of a physical page. This function is analog to ptep_test_and_clear_dirty but gets a struct page as argument instead of a pte_t pointer. * page_test_and_clear_young: Test and clear the referenced bit of a physical page. This function is analog to ptep_test_and_clear_young but gets a struct page as argument instead of a pte_t pointer. Its pretty straightforward and with it the s/390 mm makes much more sense. You'll need the tls flush optimization patch for the patch. Comments ?
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