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Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:26:55 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 05/12] thp: change_huge_pmd(): keep huge zero page write-protected

From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

We want to get page fault on write attempt to huge zero page, so let's
keep it write-protected.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index f5589c0..42607a1 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1245,6 +1245,8 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		pmd_t entry;
 		entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
 		entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
+		if (is_huge_zero_pmd(entry))
+			entry = pmd_wrprotect(entry);
 		set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
 		spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
 		ret = 1;
-- 
1.7.11.7

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