mm: save soft-dirty bits on file pages

Andy reported that if file page get reclaimed we lose the soft-dirty bit
if it was there, so save _PAGE_BIT_SOFT_DIRTY bit when page address get
encoded into pte entry.  Thus when #pf happens on such non-present pte
we can restore it back.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 83325b8..b2e29ac 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1405,8 +1405,12 @@ static int try_to_unmap_cluster(unsigned long cursor, unsigned int *mapcount,
 		pteval = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pte);
 
 		/* If nonlinear, store the file page offset in the pte. */
-		if (page->index != linear_page_index(vma, address))
-			set_pte_at(mm, address, pte, pgoff_to_pte(page->index));
+		if (page->index != linear_page_index(vma, address)) {
+			pte_t ptfile = pgoff_to_pte(page->index);
+			if (pte_soft_dirty(pteval))
+				pte_file_mksoft_dirty(ptfile);
+			set_pte_at(mm, address, pte, ptfile);
+		}
 
 		/* Move the dirty bit to the physical page now the pte is gone. */
 		if (pte_dirty(pteval))