linux/include/asm-generic
Pavel Emelyanov 0f8975ec4d mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to.  In order to do this tracking one should

  1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
  2. Wait some time.
  3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)

To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is.  Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.

Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast.  This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.

Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
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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 asm-generic: move cmpxchg*_local defs to cmpxchg.h 2013-03-13 06:11:05 +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 asm-generic headers: Allow yet more arch overrides in checksum.h 2013-02-11 20:00:33 +05:30
clkdev.h asm-generic: Add default clkdev.h 2012-10-03 21:33:53 +02:00
cmpxchg-local.h generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg 2013-02-19 08:43:37 +01:00
cmpxchg.h asm-generic: move cmpxchg*_local defs to cmpxchg.h 2013-03-13 06:11:05 +01:00
cputime_jiffies.h cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file 2013-01-27 19:23:25 +01:00
cputime_nsecs.h cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers 2013-04-26 18:58:12 +02:00
cputime.h cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting 2013-01-27 19:23:27 +01:00
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 gpiolib: let gpio_chip reference its descriptors 2013-02-11 22:21:28 +00:00
hardirq.h Fix IRQ flag handling naming 2010-10-07 14:08:55 +01:00
hugetlb.h mm/hugetlb: add more arch-defined huge_pte functions 2013-04-29 15:54:33 -07:00
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 kernel: Fix s390 absolute memory access for /dev/mem 2013-05-22 09:45:57 +02:00
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 KVM: add kvm_para_available to asm-generic/kvm_para.h 2013-06-05 13:21:29 +03:00
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 arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not 2013-06-26 12:10:55 +02:00
mutex-null.h arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not 2013-06-26 12:10:55 +02:00
mutex-xchg.h arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not 2013-06-26 12:10:55 +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 mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
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 burying unused conditionals 2013-02-14 09:21:15 -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 arch, mm: Remove tlb_fast_mode() 2013-06-06 10:07:26 +09:00
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 asm-generic: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ 2013-05-28 09:41:05 +02:00
unaligned.h
unistd.h We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config option, 2013-05-05 10:58:06 -07:00
user.h asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment 2011-03-01 15:49:39 +01:00
vga.h
vmlinux.lds.h Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
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