linux-ext4 - [RFC 02/11] mm: add pmd

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Message-Id: <1446149535-16200-3-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:12:06 -0600
From:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
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	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, x86@...nel.org,
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	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>
Subject: [RFC 02/11] mm: add pmd_mkclean()

Currently PMD pages can be dirtied via pmd_mkdirty(), but cannot be
cleaned.  For DAX mmap dirty page tracking we need to be able to clean PMD
pages when we flush them to media so that we get a new write fault the next
time the are written to.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 867da5b..c548e4c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_mkdirty(pmd_t pmd)
 	return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
 }
 
+static inline pmd_t pmd_mkclean(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+	return pmd_clear_flags(pmd, _PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY);
+}
+
 static inline pmd_t pmd_mkhuge(pmd_t pmd)
 {
 	return pmd_set_flags(pmd, _PAGE_PSE);
-- 
2.1.0

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