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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 411144f977b1..20beb6647dba 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3069,16 +3069,19 @@ static int do_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, } /* - * Avoid grouping on DSO/COW pages in specific and RO pages - * in general, RO pages shouldn't hurt as much anyway since - * they can be in shared cache state. + * Avoid grouping on RO pages in general. RO pages shouldn't hurt as + * much anyway since they can be in shared cache state. This misses + * the case where a mapping is writable but the process never writes + * to it but pte_write gets cleared during protection updates and + * pte_dirty has unpredictable behaviour between PTE scan updates, + * background writeback, dirty balancing and application behaviour. * - * FIXME! This checks "pmd_dirty()" as an approximation of - * "is this a read-only page", since checking "pmd_write()" - * is even more broken. We haven't actually turned this into - * a writable page, so pmd_write() will always be false. + * TODO: Note that the ideal here would be to avoid a situation where a + * NUMA fault is taken immediately followed by a write fault in + * some cases which would have lower overhead overall but would be + * invasive as the fault paths would need to be unified. */ - if (!pte_dirty(pte)) + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) flags |= TNF_NO_GROUP; /* |