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arm64: mm: Introduce PTE_WRITE
authorSteve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:07:13 +0000 (14:07 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:30:49 +0000 (11:30 +0000)
commitd13e2eab9e866f69c13eb8d583f7c0846e2bbce9
treeef50b27ee3249facbc8dd809937445cdaefbc028
parentb05eb009095862dc080e03f94b09fae530850758
arm64: mm: Introduce PTE_WRITE

We have the following means for encoding writable or dirty ptes:

                                PTE_DIRTY       PTE_RDONLY
!pte_dirty && !pte_write        0               1
!pte_dirty && pte_write         0               1
pte_dirty && !pte_write         1               1
pte_dirty && pte_write          1               0

So we can't distinguish between writable clean ptes and read only
ptes. This can cause problems with ptes being incorrectly flagged as
read only when they are writable but not dirty.

This patch introduces a new software bit PTE_WRITE which allows us to
correctly identify writable ptes. PTE_RDONLY is now only clear for
valid ptes where a page is both writable and dirty.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h