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Following the update of pagewalk code commit a07984d48146 ("mm: pagewalk:
add p4d_entry() and pgd_entry()") we can modify the mapping_dirty_helpers'
huge page-table entry callbacks to avoid splitting when a huge pud or -pmd
is encountered.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200203154305.15045-1-thomas_os@shipmail.org

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>