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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)
commit07b1f6d711389cf75f551c335e79bf398feedcef
treeef50b27ee3249facbc8dd809937445cdaefbc028
parentb4a7a3ba3df5bed0ff2908b739304e13355478c0
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