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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ksm.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/ksm.c | 11 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ksm.h b/include/linux/ksm.h index 899a314bc487..98878107244f 100644 --- a/include/linux/ksm.h +++ b/include/linux/ksm.h @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ int ksm_disable(struct mm_struct *mm); int __ksm_enter(struct mm_struct *mm); void __ksm_exit(struct mm_struct *mm); +/* + * To identify zeropages that were mapped by KSM, we reuse the dirty bit + * in the PTE. If the PTE is dirty, the zeropage was mapped by KSM when + * deduplicating memory. + */ +#define is_ksm_zero_pte(pte) (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)) && pte_dirty(pte)) static inline int ksm_fork(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm) { @@ -448,7 +448,8 @@ static int break_ksm_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long nex if (is_migration_entry(entry)) page = pfn_swap_entry_to_page(entry); } - ret = page && PageKsm(page); + /* return 1 if the page is an normal ksm page or KSM-placed zero page */ + ret = (page && PageKsm(page)) || is_ksm_zero_pte(*pte); pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl); return ret; } @@ -1222,8 +1223,12 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, page_add_anon_rmap(kpage, vma, addr, RMAP_NONE); newpte = mk_pte(kpage, vma->vm_page_prot); } else { - newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(kpage), - vma->vm_page_prot)); + /* + * Use pte_mkdirty to mark the zero page mapped by KSM, and then + * we can easily track all KSM-placed zero pages by checking if + * the dirty bit in zero page's PTE is set. + */ + newpte = pte_mkdirty(pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(page_to_pfn(kpage), vma->vm_page_prot))); /* * We're replacing an anonymous page with a zero page, which is * not anonymous. We need to do proper accounting otherwise we |