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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 217eb705fac0..e27fbf887f3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
}
+/*
+ * Used to set accessed or dirty bits in the page table entries
+ * on other architectures. On x86, the accessed and dirty bits
+ * are tracked by hardware. However, do_wp_page calls this function
+ * to also make the pte writeable at the same time the dirty bit is
+ * set. In that case we do actually need to write the PTE.
+ */
int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
pte_t entry, int dirty)
@@ -310,7 +317,6 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (changed && dirty) {
*ptep = entry;
pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep);
- flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
}
return changed;