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Martin Schwidefsky abf09bed3c s390/mm: implement software dirty bits 
The s390 architecture is unique in respect to dirty page detection,
it uses the change bit in the per-page storage key to track page
modifications. All other architectures track dirty bits by means
of page table entries. This property of s390 has caused numerous
problems in the past, e.g. see git commit ef5d437f71
"mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390".

To avoid future issues in regard to per-page dirty bits convert
s390 to a fault based software dirty bit detection mechanism. All
user page table entries which are marked as clean will be hardware
read-only, even if the pte is supposed to be writable. A write by
the user process will trigger a protection fault which will cause
the user pte to be marked as dirty and the hardware read-only bit
is removed.

With this change the dirty bit in the storage key is irrelevant
for Linux as a host, but the storage key is still required for
KVM guests. The effect is that page_test_and_clear_dirty and the
related code can be removed. The referenced bit in the storage
key is still used by the page_test_and_clear_young primitive to
provide page age information.

For page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty
there will not be any change in behavior as the dirty bit tracking
already uses read-only ptes to control the amount of dirty pages.
Only for swap cache pages and pages of mappings without
mapping_cap_account_dirty there can be additional protection faults.
To avoid an excessive number of additional faults the mk_pte
primitive checks for PageDirty if the pgprot value allows for writes
and pre-dirties the pte. That avoids all additional faults for
tmpfs and shmem pages until these pages are added to the swap cache.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-02-14 15:55:23 +01:00
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bitops Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
4level-fixup.h
atomic64.h
atomic-long.h
atomic.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
audit_change_attr.h audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> 2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
audit_dir_write.h audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> 2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
audit_read.h audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> 2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
audit_signal.h
audit_write.h audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> 2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
barrier.h Create asm-generic/barrier.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
bitops.h bitops: remove minix bitops from asm/bitops.h 2011-03-23 19:46:22 -07:00
bitsperlong.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
bug.h bug.h: Fix up CONFIG_BUG=n implicit function declarations. 2012-06-25 10:32:49 -07:00
bugs.h
cache.h
cacheflush.h asm-generic/cacheflush.h: flush icache when copying to user pages 2011-05-25 08:39:37 -07:00
checksum.h Add extra arch overrides to asm-generic/checksum.h 2011-11-01 07:34:21 -07:00
clkdev.h asm-generic: Add default clkdev.h 2012-10-03 21:33:53 +02:00
cmpxchg-local.h Fix IRQ flag handling naming 2010-10-07 14:08:55 +01:00
cmpxchg.h asm-generic: add linux/types.h to cmpxchg.h 2012-04-02 14:41:27 -07:00
cputime.h Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-01-06 08:44:54 -08:00
current.h
delay.h asm-generic: delay.h fix udelay and ndelay for 8 bit args 2011-07-22 18:45:33 +02:00
device.h
div64.h
dma-coherent.h common: dma-mapping: add support for generic dma_mmap_* calls 2012-07-30 12:25:46 +02:00
dma-contiguous.h mm: cma: fix condition check when setting global cma area 2012-07-06 12:02:04 +02:00
dma-mapping-broken.h asm-generic/dma-mapping-broken.h: Provide dma_alloc_attrs()/dma_free_attrs() 2012-12-25 20:14:54 +01:00
dma-mapping-common.h common: dma-mapping: introduce dma_get_sgtable() function 2012-07-30 12:25:46 +02:00
dma.h
emergency-restart.h
exec.h Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
fb.h
ftrace.h asm-generic headers: add ftrace.h 2011-03-17 09:19:04 +08:00
futex.h futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types 2011-03-11 12:23:31 +01:00
getorder.h bitops: Add missing parentheses to new get_order macro 2012-02-24 10:39:27 -08:00
gpio.h GPIO follow up patch and type change for v3.5 merge window 2012-12-11 13:00:56 -08:00
hardirq.h Fix IRQ flag handling naming 2010-10-07 14:08:55 +01:00
hw_irq.h
ide_iops.h
int-l64.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
int-ll64.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h asm-generic: architecture independent readq/writeq for 32bit environment 2012-02-21 16:47:28 -08:00
io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h asm-generic: architecture independent readq/writeq for 32bit environment 2012-02-21 16:47:28 -08:00
io.h asm-generic/io.h: convert readX defines to functions 2013-02-14 15:55:00 +01:00
ioctl.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
iomap.h [PARISC] fix compile break caused by iomap: make IOPORT/PCI mapping functions conditional 2012-02-27 09:43:30 -06:00
irq_regs.h core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address. 2010-12-17 15:07:19 +01:00
irq.h
irqflags.h Fix IRQ flag handling naming 2010-10-07 14:08:55 +01:00
Kbuild.asm UAPI: Set up uapi/asm/Kbuild.asm 2012-10-02 18:01:56 +01:00
kdebug.h asm-generic: kdebug.h: Checkpatch cleanup 2010-10-09 21:51:44 +02:00
kmap_types.h asm-generic: remove km_type definitions 2012-07-24 15:27:30 +08:00
kvm_para.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
libata-portmap.h
linkage.h
local64.h atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
local.h atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
memory_model.h mm: fix __page_to_pfn for a const struct page argument 2011-08-17 13:00:20 -07:00
mm_hooks.h
mmu_context.h
mmu.h asm-generic/mmu.h: Add support for FDPIC 2012-12-09 23:14:14 +01:00
module.h Make most arch asm/module.h files use asm-generic/module.h 2012-09-28 14:31:03 +09:30
mutex-dec.h
mutex-null.h
mutex-xchg.h mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure 2012-08-13 18:46:54 +02:00
mutex.h
page.h The following changes since commit 3ee72ca992 2012-01-10 17:39:40 -08:00
param.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
parport.h include: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
pci_iomap.h [PARISC] fix compile break caused by iomap: make IOPORT/PCI mapping functions conditional 2012-02-27 09:43:30 -06:00
pci-bridge.h PCI: work around Stratus ftServer broken PCIe hierarchy 2012-04-30 15:21:02 -06:00
pci-dma-compat.h dma-mapping: pci: move pci_set_dma_mask and pci_set_consistent_dma_mask to pci-dma-compat.h 2010-03-12 15:52:42 -08:00
pci.h PCI: collapse pcibios_resource_to_bus 2012-02-23 20:19:04 -07:00
percpu.h percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var() 2010-09-10 10:56:51 +02:00
pgalloc.h
pgtable-nopmd.h
pgtable-nopud.h
pgtable.h s390/mm: implement software dirty bits 2013-02-14 15:55:23 +01:00
ptrace.h asm-generic/ptrace.h: start a common low level ptrace helper 2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
resource.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
rtc.h
rwsem.h Hexagon: Add locking types and functions 2011-11-01 07:34:20 -07:00
scatterlist.h asm-generic: remove ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN in scatterlist.h 2010-05-27 09:12:54 -07:00
sections.h x86: Separate out entry text section 2011-03-08 17:22:11 +01:00
segment.h
serial.h
siginfo.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
signal.h unify default ptrace_signal_deliver 2012-11-29 00:01:23 -05:00
sizes.h ARM: 7430/1: sizes.h: move from asm-generic to <linux/sizes.h> 2012-06-28 17:14:34 +01:00
spinlock.h
statfs.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
string.h
switch_to.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
syscall.h asm/syscall.h: add syscall_get_arch 2012-04-14 11:13:19 +10:00
syscalls.h CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK build breakage with asm-generic/syscalls.h 2012-12-26 01:15:01 -05:00
termios-base.h
termios.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
timex.h
tlb.h mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT 2013-01-04 16:11:46 -08:00
tlbflush.h BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h 2012-03-04 17:54:34 -05:00
topology.h topology: alternate fix for ia64 tiger_defconfig build breakage 2010-08-09 20:44:57 -07:00
trace_clock.h tracing,x86: Add a TSC trace_clock 2012-11-13 15:48:27 -05:00
uaccess-unaligned.h
uaccess.h fix default __strnlen_user macro 2011-10-06 19:47:12 -04:00
unaligned.h
unistd.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
user.h asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment 2011-03-01 15:49:39 +01:00
vga.h
vmlinux.lds.h vmlinux.lds.h: Allow architectures to add sections to the front of .bss 2012-10-11 11:02:37 +02:00
word-at-a-time.h word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic 2012-05-26 11:33:40 -07:00
xor.h asm-generic: xor: mark static functions as __maybe_unused 2012-10-03 21:21:06 +02:00