From: Christian Borntraeger page_mkclean used to call page_clear_dirty for every given page. This is different to all other architectures, where the dirty bit in the PTEs is only resetted, if page_mapping() returns a non-NULL pointer. We can move the page_test_dirty/page_clear_dirty sequence into the 2nd if to avoid unnecessary iske/sske sequences, which are expensive. This change also helps kvm for s390 as the host must transfer the dirty bit into the guest status bits. By moving the page_clear_dirty operation into the 2nd if, the vm will only call page_clear_dirty for pages where it walks the mapping anyway. There it calls ptep_clear_flush for writable ptes, so we can transfer the dirty bit to the guest. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- mm/rmap.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -urpN linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c linux-2.6-patched/mm/rmap.c --- linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c 2007-11-16 14:27:35.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6-patched/mm/rmap.c 2007-11-16 14:27:43.000000000 +0100 @@ -471,11 +471,12 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page) if (page_mapped(page)) { struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); - if (mapping) + if (mapping) { ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page); - if (page_test_dirty(page)) { - page_clear_dirty(page); - ret = 1; + if (page_test_dirty(page)) { + page_clear_dirty(page); + ret = 1; + } } } -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/