mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()
Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd().
It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd().
We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry
dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE.
The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[carnil: backport for 4.9:
- Adjust context
- Drop specific part for PUD-sized transparent hugepages. Support
for PUD-sized transparent hugepages was added in v4.11-rc1
]
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name mm-thp-Do-not-make-page-table-dirty-unconditionally-.patch