From c5acad84cf1e33ca1a50984952e1c5b2caa0e13f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Hellstrom Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:12:30 +0100 Subject: mm: Add write-protect and clean utilities for address space ranges MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add two utilities to 1) write-protect and 2) clean all ptes pointing into a range of an address space. The utilities are intended to aid in tracking dirty pages (either driver-allocated system memory or pci device memory). The write-protect utility should be used in conjunction with page_mkwrite() and pfn_mkwrite() to trigger write page-faults on page accesses. Typically one would want to use this on sparse accesses into large memory regions. The clean utility should be used to utilize hardware dirtying functionality and avoid the overhead of page-faults, typically on large accesses into small memory regions. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom Acked-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/Kconfig | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/Kconfig') diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index a5dae9a7eb51..550f7aceb679 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -736,4 +736,7 @@ config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL config ARCH_HAS_HUGEPD bool +config MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS + bool + endmenu -- cgit v1.2.3