Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: tracking shared dirty pages

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On Thu, 25 May 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> @@ -1446,12 +1447,13 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
>  
> -	if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
> +	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {

You add this unlikely later again it seems. Why remove in the first place?

> +static int page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +	entry = pte_mkclean(pte_wrprotect(*pte));
> +	ptep_establish(vma, address, pte, entry);

> +	update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);

You only changed protections on an estisting pte and ptep_establish 
already flushed the tlb. No need to call update_mmu_cache. See how 
change_protection() in mm/mprotect.c does it.

> +	lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);

Needed.
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