[PATCH 0/6] mm: tracking dirty pages -v8

[PATCH 0/6] mm: tracking dirty pages -v8

[Peter Zijlstra]

The latest version of the tracking dirty pages patch-set.

This version handles VM_PFNMAP vmas and the COW case of shared RO mappings.

follow_page() got a comment for being weird, but in the light of the 
set_page_dirty() call that can not yet be removed does something sane.

copy_one_pte() also does the right thing, although I wonder why it clears
the dirty bit for children?

f_op->open() - sets a backing_dev_info
f_op->mmap() - modifies both vma->vm_flags and vma->vm_page_prot

Since our condition depends on both the backing_dev_info and vma->vm_flags
it cannot set vma->vm_page_prot before f_op->mmap().

However this means that !VM_PFNMAP vmas that are shared writable but do not
provide a f_op->nopage() and whos backing_dev_info does not have 
BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY, are left writable.

Peter

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[PATCH 1/6] mm: tracking shared dirty pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

People expressed the need to track dirty pages in shared mappings.

Linus outlined the general idea of doing that through making clean
writable pages write-protected and taking the write fault.

This patch does exactly that, it makes pages in a shared writable
mapping write-protected. On write-fault the pages are marked dirty and
made writable. When the pages get synced with their backing store, the
write-protection is re-instated.

It survives a simple test and shows the dirty pages in /proc/vmstat.

Changes in -v8

 - access_process_vm() and other force users of get_user_pages() can
   induce COW of read-only shared mappings.

Changes in -v7

 - changed is_shared_writable() to exclude VM_PFNMAP'ed regions.
 - Hugh's tiresome problem wasn't fully solved, now using the ugly duckling
   method.

Changes in -v6

 - make page_mkclean_one() modify the pte more like change_pte_range() 
   (suggested by Christoph Lameter)
 - made is_shared_writable() take vm_flags, it now resembles is_cow_mapping().
 - fixed the mprotect() bug (spotted by Hugh Dickins)
 - hopefully fixed the tiresome issue of do_mmap_pgoff() trampling on
   driver specific vm_page_prot settings (spotted by Hugh Dickins)
 - made a new version of the page_mkwrite() patch to go on top of all this.
   This so that Linus could merge this very early on in 2.6.18.

Changes in -v5

 - rename page_wrprotect() to page_mkclean() (suggested by Nick Piggin)
 - added comment to test_clear_page_dirty() (Andrew Morton)
 - cleanup page_wrprotect() (Andrew Morton)
 - renamed VM_SharedWritable() to is_shared_writable()
 - fs/buffers.c try_to_free_buffers(): remove clear_page_dirty() from under
   ->private_lock. This seems to be save, since ->private_lock is used to
   serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself.
 - rebased on top of David Howells' page_mkwrite() patch.

Changes in -v4:

 - small cleanup as suggested by Christoph Lameter.

Changes in -v3:

 - move set_page_dirty() outside pte lock (suggested by Christoph Lameter)

Changes in -v2:

 - only wrprotect pages from dirty capable mappings. (Nick Piggin)
 - move the writefault handling from do_wp_page() into handle_pte_fault(). 
   (Nick Piggin)
 - revert to the old install_page interface. (Nick Piggin)
 - also clear the pte dirty bit when we make pages read-only again.
   (spotted by Rik van Riel)
 - make page_wrprotect() return the number of reprotected ptes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---

 fs/buffer.c          |    2 -
 include/linux/mm.h   |    6 ++++
 include/linux/rmap.h |    8 ++++++
 mm/memory.c          |   56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 mm/mmap.c            |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/mprotect.c        |   14 +++++++++-
 mm/page-writeback.c  |    9 ++++++
 mm/rmap.c            |   68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h	2006-06-12 13:09:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void 
 #define VM_SequentialReadHint(v)	((v)->vm_flags & VM_SEQ_READ)
 #define VM_RandomReadHint(v)		((v)->vm_flags & VM_RAND_READ)
 
+static inline int is_shared_writable(unsigned int flags)
+{
+	return (flags & (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE|VM_PFNMAP)) ==
+		(VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE);
+}
+
 /*
  * mapping from the currently active vm_flags protection bits (the
  * low four bits) to a page protection mask..
Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c	2006-06-13 11:17:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -925,6 +925,12 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_
 	pte = *ptep;
 	if (!pte_present(pte))
 		goto unlock;
+	/*
+	 * This is not fully correct in the light of trapping write faults
+	 * for writable shared mappings. However since we're going to mark
+	 * the page dirty anyway some few lines downward, we might as well
+	 * take the write fault now.
+	 */
 	if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(pte))
 		goto unlock;
 	page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte);
@@ -1445,25 +1451,36 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
 {
 	struct page *old_page, *new_page;
 	pte_t entry;
-	int ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+	int reuse = 0, ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+	struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
 
 	old_page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, orig_pte);
 	if (!old_page)
 		goto gotten;
 
-	if (PageAnon(old_page) && !TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) {
-		int reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
+	/* get_user_pages(.write:1, .force:1)
+	 *   __handle_mm_fault()
+	 *
+	 * Makes COW happen for readonly shared mappings too.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(is_shared_writable(vma->vm_flags))) {
+		reuse = 1;
+		dirty_page = old_page;
+		get_page(dirty_page);
+	} else if (PageAnon(old_page) && !TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) {
+		reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
 		unlock_page(old_page);
-		if (reuse) {
-			flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(orig_pte));
-			entry = pte_mkyoung(orig_pte);
-			entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
-			ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, page_table, entry, 1);
-			update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
-			lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
-			ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;
-			goto unlock;
-		}
+	}
+
+	if (reuse) {
+		flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(orig_pte));
+		entry = pte_mkyoung(orig_pte);
+		entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+		ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, page_table, entry, 1);
+		update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
+		lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
+		ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;
+		goto unlock;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -1518,6 +1535,10 @@ gotten:
 		page_cache_release(old_page);
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+	if (dirty_page) {
+		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		put_page(dirty_page);
+	}
 	return ret;
 oom:
 	if (old_page)
@@ -2046,6 +2067,7 @@ static int do_no_page(struct mm_struct *
 	unsigned int sequence = 0;
 	int ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
 	int anon = 0;
+	struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
 
 	pte_unmap(page_table);
 	BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
@@ -2127,6 +2149,10 @@ retry:
 		} else {
 			inc_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
 			page_add_file_rmap(new_page);
+			if (write_access) {
+				dirty_page = new_page;
+				get_page(dirty_page);
+			}
 		}
 	} else {
 		/* One of our sibling threads was faster, back out. */
@@ -2139,6 +2165,10 @@ retry:
 	lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+	if (dirty_page) {
+		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		put_page(dirty_page);
+	}
 	return ret;
 oom:
 	page_cache_release(new_page);
Index: linux-2.6/mm/mmap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mmap.c	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mmap.c	2006-06-12 14:40:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
 #include <linux/rmap.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -888,6 +889,7 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file 
 	struct rb_node ** rb_link, * rb_parent;
 	int accountable = 1;
 	unsigned long charged = 0, reqprot = prot;
+	struct address_space *mapping = NULL;
 
 	if (file) {
 		if (is_file_hugepages(file))
@@ -1065,7 +1067,8 @@ munmap_back:
 	vma->vm_start = addr;
 	vma->vm_end = addr + len;
 	vma->vm_flags = vm_flags;
-	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vm_flags & 0x0f];
+	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vm_flags &
+				(VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)];
 	vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
 
 	if (file) {
@@ -1083,6 +1086,7 @@ munmap_back:
 		error = file->f_op->mmap(file, vma);
 		if (error)
 			goto unmap_and_free_vma;
+
 	} else if (vm_flags & VM_SHARED) {
 		error = shmem_zero_setup(vma);
 		if (error)
@@ -1106,6 +1110,30 @@ munmap_back:
 	pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
 	vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
 
+	/*
+	 * Tracking of dirty pages for shared writable mappings. Do this by
+	 * write protecting writable pages, and mark dirty in the write fault.
+	 *
+	 * Modify vma->vm_page_prot (the default protection for new pages)
+	 * to this effect.
+	 *
+	 * Cannot do before because the condition depends on:
+	 *  - backing_dev_info having the right capabilities
+	 *    (set by f_op->open())
+	 *  - vma->vm_flags being fully set
+	 *    (finished in f_op->mmap(), which could call remap_pfn_range())
+	 *
+	 *  Also, cannot reset vma->vm_page_prot from vma->vm_flags because
+	 *  f_op->mmap() can modify it.
+	 */
+	if (is_shared_writable(vm_flags) && vma->vm_file)
+		mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
+	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
+		vma->vm_page_prot =
+			__pgprot(pte_val
+				(pte_wrprotect
+				 (__pte(pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot)))));
+
 	if (!file || !vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, vma->vm_end,
 			vma->vm_flags, NULL, file, pgoff, vma_policy(vma))) {
 		file = vma->vm_file;
@@ -1921,7 +1949,8 @@ unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long addr,
 	vma->vm_end = addr + len;
 	vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
 	vma->vm_flags = flags;
-	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[flags & 0x0f];
+	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[flags &
+				(VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)];
 	vma_link(mm, vma, prev, rb_link, rb_parent);
 out:
 	mm->total_vm += len >> PAGE_SHIFT;
Index: linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mprotect.c	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c	2006-06-12 13:09:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
 #include <linux/personality.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -106,6 +107,8 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vm
 	unsigned long oldflags = vma->vm_flags;
 	long nrpages = (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	unsigned long charged = 0;
+	unsigned int mask;
+	struct address_space *mapping = NULL;
 	pgprot_t newprot;
 	pgoff_t pgoff;
 	int error;
@@ -132,8 +135,6 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vm
 		}
 	}
 
-	newprot = protection_map[newflags & 0xf];
-
 	/*
 	 * First try to merge with previous and/or next vma.
 	 */
@@ -160,6 +161,15 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vm
 	}
 
 success:
+	/* Don't make the VMA automatically writable if it's shared. */
+	mask = VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED;
+	if (is_shared_writable(newflags) && vma->vm_file)
+		mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
+	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
+		mask &= ~VM_SHARED;
+
+	newprot = protection_map[newflags & mask];
+
 	/*
 	 * vm_flags and vm_page_prot are protected by the mmap_sem
 	 * held in write mode.
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-13 11:17:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/rmap.h>
 
 /*
  * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate
@@ -563,7 +564,7 @@ int do_writepages(struct address_space *
 		return 0;
 	wbc->for_writepages = 1;
 	if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
-		ret =  mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
+		ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
 	else
 		ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
 	wbc->for_writepages = 0;
@@ -725,6 +726,11 @@ int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *p
 						page_index(page),
 						PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
 			write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
+			/*
+			 * We can continue to use `mapping' here because the
+			 * page is locked, which pins the address_space
+			 */
+			page_mkclean(page);
 			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
 				dec_page_state(nr_dirty);
 			return 1;
@@ -756,6 +762,7 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page 
 
 	if (mapping) {
 		if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
+			page_mkclean(page);
 			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
 				dec_page_state(nr_dirty);
 			return 1;
Index: linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/rmap.c	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c	2006-06-13 11:18:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 #include <linux/rmap.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
@@ -472,6 +473,73 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page, i
 	return referenced;
 }
 
+static int page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma, int protect)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+	unsigned long address;
+	pte_t *pte, entry;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	address = vma_address(page, vma);
+	if (address == -EFAULT)
+		goto out;
+
+	pte = page_check_address(page, mm, address, &ptl);
+	if (!pte)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (!(pte_dirty(*pte) || (protect && pte_write(*pte))))
+		goto unlock;
+
+	entry = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, pte);
+	entry = pte_mkclean(entry);
+	if (protect)
+		entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
+	ptep_establish(vma, address, pte, entry);
+	lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
+	ret = 1;
+
+unlock:
+	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+out:
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static int page_mkclean_file(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+{
+	pgoff_t pgoff = page->index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+	struct prio_tree_iter iter;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	BUG_ON(PageAnon(page));
+
+	spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
+	vma_prio_tree_foreach(vma, &iter, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
+		int protect = mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping) &&
+			is_shared_writable(vma->vm_flags);
+		ret += page_mkclean_one(page, vma, protect);
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+
+	if (page_mapped(page)) {
+		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+		if (mapping)
+			ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page);
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /**
  * page_set_anon_rmap - setup new anonymous rmap
  * @page:	the page to add the mapping to
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/rmap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/rmap.h	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/rmap.h	2006-06-12 13:09:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -105,6 +105,14 @@ pte_t *page_check_address(struct page *,
  */
 unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 
+/*
+ * Cleans the PTEs of shared mappings.
+ * (and since clean PTEs should also be readonly, write protects them too)
+ *
+ * returns the number of cleaned PTEs.
+ */
+int page_mkclean(struct page *);
+
 #else	/* !CONFIG_MMU */
 
 #define anon_vma_init()		do {} while (0)
Index: linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/buffer.c	2006-06-12 07:01:34.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c	2006-06-12 13:09:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -2985,6 +2985,7 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *pag
 
 	spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
 	ret = drop_buffers(page, &buffers_to_free);
+	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
 	if (ret) {
 		/*
 		 * If the filesystem writes its buffers by hand (eg ext3)
@@ -2996,7 +2997,6 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *pag
 		 */
 		clear_page_dirty(page);
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
 out:
 	if (buffers_to_free) {
 		struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free;

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[PATCH 2/6] mm: balance dirty pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them.
Avoids OOM by surprise.

Changes -v2:

 - small helper function (Andrew Morton)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

 include/linux/writeback.h |    1 +
 mm/memory.c               |    5 +++--
 mm/page-writeback.c       |   10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c	2006-06-08 16:28:39.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c	2006-06-08 16:29:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include <linux/rmap.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1525,7 +1526,7 @@ gotten:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
@@ -2155,7 +2156,7 @@ retry:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/writeback.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/writeback.h	2006-06-08 16:28:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/writeback.h	2006-06-08 16:28:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode,
 			loff_t pos, loff_t count);
 int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
 			   loff_t pos, loff_t count);
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page);
 
 /* pdflush.c */
 extern int nr_pdflush_threads;	/* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-08 16:28:39.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-08 16:28:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -255,6 +255,16 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
 		pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
 }
 
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
+		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
+		if (mapping)
+			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
  * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied

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[PATCH 3/6] mm: msync() cleanup

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to
scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

 mm/msync.c |  129 ++++---------------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/msync.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/msync.c	2006-06-07 14:25:54.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/msync.c	2006-06-07 14:32:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,109 +20,14 @@
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
-static unsigned long msync_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
-				unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
-{
-	pte_t *pte;
-	spinlock_t *ptl;
-	int progress = 0;
-	unsigned long ret = 0;
-
-again:
-	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
-	do {
-		struct page *page;
-
-		if (progress >= 64) {
-			progress = 0;
-			if (need_resched() || need_lockbreak(ptl))
-				break;
-		}
-		progress++;
-		if (!pte_present(*pte))
-			continue;
-		if (!pte_maybe_dirty(*pte))
-			continue;
-		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, *pte);
-		if (!page)
-			continue;
-		if (ptep_clear_flush_dirty(vma, addr, pte) ||
-				page_test_and_clear_dirty(page))
-			ret += set_page_dirty(page);
-		progress += 3;
-	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
-	pte_unmap_unlock(pte - 1, ptl);
-	cond_resched();
-	if (addr != end)
-		goto again;
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static inline unsigned long msync_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-			pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
-{
-	pmd_t *pmd;
-	unsigned long next;
-	unsigned long ret = 0;
-
-	pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
-	do {
-		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
-			continue;
-		ret += msync_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next);
-	} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static inline unsigned long msync_pud_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-			pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
-{
-	pud_t *pud;
-	unsigned long next;
-	unsigned long ret = 0;
-
-	pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
-	do {
-		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pud_none_or_clear_bad(pud))
-			continue;
-		ret += msync_pmd_range(vma, pud, addr, next);
-	} while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-static unsigned long msync_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-				unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
-{
-	pgd_t *pgd;
-	unsigned long next;
-	unsigned long ret = 0;
-
-	/* For hugepages we can't go walking the page table normally,
-	 * but that's ok, hugetlbfs is memory based, so we don't need
-	 * to do anything more on an msync().
-	 */
-	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB)
-		return 0;
-
-	BUG_ON(addr >= end);
-	pgd = pgd_offset(vma->vm_mm, addr);
-	flush_cache_range(vma, addr, end);
-	do {
-		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd))
-			continue;
-		ret += msync_pud_range(vma, pgd, addr, next);
-	} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 /*
  * MS_SYNC syncs the entire file - including mappings.
  *
- * MS_ASYNC does not start I/O (it used to, up to 2.5.67).  Instead, it just
- * marks the relevant pages dirty.  The application may now run fsync() to
+ * MS_ASYNC does not start I/O (it used to, up to 2.5.67).
+ * Nor does it marks the relevant pages dirty (it used to up to 2.6.17).
+ * Now it doesn't do anything, since dirty pages are properly tracked.
+ *
+ * The application may now run fsync() to
  * write out the dirty pages and wait on the writeout and check the result.
  * Or the application may run fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) against the fd to start
  * async writeout immediately.
@@ -130,16 +35,11 @@
  * applications.
  */
 static int msync_interval(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
-			unsigned long end, int flags,
-			unsigned long *nr_pages_dirtied)
+			unsigned long end, int flags)
 {
-	struct file *file = vma->vm_file;
-
 	if ((flags & MS_INVALIDATE) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED))
 		return -EBUSY;
 
-	if (file && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
-		*nr_pages_dirtied = msync_page_range(vma, addr, end);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -178,7 +78,6 @@
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 	do {
-		unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied = 0;
 		struct file *file;
 
 		/* Here start < vma->vm_end. */
@@ -189,8 +88,7 @@
 		/* Here vma->vm_start <= start < vma->vm_end. */
 		if (end <= vma->vm_end) {
 			if (start < end) {
-				error = msync_interval(vma, start, end, flags,
-							&nr_pages_dirtied);
+				error = msync_interval(vma, start, end, flags);
 				if (error)
 					goto out_unlock;
 			}
@@ -198,22 +96,13 @@
 			done = 1;
 		} else {
 			/* Here vma->vm_start <= start < vma->vm_end < end. */
-			error = msync_interval(vma, start, vma->vm_end, flags,
-						&nr_pages_dirtied);
+			error = msync_interval(vma, start, vma->vm_end, flags);
 			if (error)
 				goto out_unlock;
 		}
 		file = vma->vm_file;
 		start = vma->vm_end;
-		if ((flags & MS_ASYNC) && file && nr_pages_dirtied) {
-			get_file(file);
-			up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(file->f_mapping,
-							nr_pages_dirtied);
-			fput(file);
-			down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-			vma = find_vma(current->mm, start);
-		} else if ((flags & MS_SYNC) && file &&
+		if ((flags & MS_SYNC) && file &&
 				(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
 			get_file(file);
 			up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

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[PATCH 4/6] mm: optimize the new mprotect() code a bit

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

mprotect() resets the page protections, which could result in extra write
faults for those pages whos dirty state we track using write faults
and are dirty already.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 mm/mprotect.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mprotect.c	2006-06-12 13:09:55.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c	2006-06-13 11:43:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
 static void change_pte_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
-		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
+		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
+		int is_accountable)
 {
 	pte_t *pte;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
@@ -41,7 +42,13 @@ static void change_pte_range(struct mm_s
 			 * bits by wiping the pte and then setting the new pte
 			 * into place.
 			 */
-			ptent = pte_modify(ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pte), newprot);
+			ptent = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pte);
+			ptent = pte_modify(ptent, newprot);
+			/* Avoid taking write faults for pages we know to be
+			 * dirty.
+			 */
+			if (is_accountable && pte_dirty(ptent))
+				ptent = pte_mkwrite(ptent);
 			set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptent);
 			lazy_mmu_prot_update(ptent);
 		}
@@ -50,7 +57,8 @@ static void change_pte_range(struct mm_s
 }
 
 static inline void change_pmd_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud,
-		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
+		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
+		int is_accountable)
 {
 	pmd_t *pmd;
 	unsigned long next;
@@ -60,12 +68,13 @@ static inline void change_pmd_range(stru
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
 			continue;
-		change_pte_range(mm, pmd, addr, next, newprot);
+		change_pte_range(mm, pmd, addr, next, newprot, is_accountable);
 	} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
 }
 
 static inline void change_pud_range(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
-		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
+		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
+		int is_accountable)
 {
 	pud_t *pud;
 	unsigned long next;
@@ -75,12 +84,13 @@ static inline void change_pud_range(stru
 		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pud_none_or_clear_bad(pud))
 			continue;
-		change_pmd_range(mm, pud, addr, next, newprot);
+		change_pmd_range(mm, pud, addr, next, newprot, is_accountable);
 	} while (pud++, addr = next, addr != end);
 }
 
 static void change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot)
+		unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, pgprot_t newprot,
+		int is_accountable)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
 	pgd_t *pgd;
@@ -94,7 +104,7 @@ static void change_protection(struct vm_
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
 		if (pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd))
 			continue;
-		change_pud_range(mm, pgd, addr, next, newprot);
+		change_pud_range(mm, pgd, addr, next, newprot, is_accountable);
 	} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
 	flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end);
 }
@@ -112,6 +122,7 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vm
 	pgprot_t newprot;
 	pgoff_t pgoff;
 	int error;
+	int is_accountable = 0;
 
 	if (newflags == oldflags) {
 		*pprev = vma;
@@ -165,8 +176,10 @@ success:
 	mask = VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED;
 	if (is_shared_writable(newflags) && vma->vm_file)
 		mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
-	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
+	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
 		mask &= ~VM_SHARED;
+		is_accountable = 1;
+	}
 
 	newprot = protection_map[newflags & mask];
 
@@ -179,7 +192,7 @@ success:
 	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
 		hugetlb_change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
 	else
-		change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
+		change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot, is_accountable);
 	vm_stat_account(mm, oldflags, vma->vm_file, -nrpages);
 	vm_stat_account(mm, newflags, vma->vm_file, nrpages);
 	return 0;

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[PATCH 5/6] mm: small cleanup of install_page()

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Smallish cleanup to install_page(), could save a memory read
(haven't checked the asm output) and sure looks nicer.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---

Index: linux-2.6/mm/fremap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/fremap.c	2006-06-08 13:47:29.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/fremap.c	2006-06-08 13:50:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ int install_page(struct mm_struct *mm, s
 		inc_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
 
 	flush_icache_page(vma, page);
-	set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, mk_pte(page, prot));
+	pte_val = mk_pte(page, prot);
+	set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, pte_val);
 	page_add_file_rmap(page);
-	pte_val = *pte;
 	update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, pte_val);
 	err = 0;
 unlock:

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[PATCH 6/6] mm: remove some update_mmu_cache() calls

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

This may be a bit controversial but it does not seem to
make sense to use the update_mmu_cache macro when we reuse
the page. We are only fiddling around with the protections,
the dirty and accessed bits.

With the call to update_mmu_cache the way of using the macros
would be different from mprotect() and page_mkclean(). I'd
rather have everything work the same way. If this breaks on some
arches then also mprotect and page_mkclean() are broken.
The use of mprotect() is rare, we may have breakage in some
arches that we just have not seen yet.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 mm/memory.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c	2006-06-13 10:33:21.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c	2006-06-13 10:36:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -1477,7 +1477,6 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
 		entry = pte_mkyoung(orig_pte);
 		entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
 		ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, page_table, entry, 1);
-		update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
 		lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
 		ret |= VM_FAULT_WRITE;
 		goto unlock;
@@ -2263,7 +2262,6 @@ static inline int handle_pte_fault(struc
 	entry = pte_mkyoung(entry);
 	if (!pte_same(old_entry, entry)) {
 		ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, pte, entry, write_access);
-		update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
 		lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
 	} else {
 		/*

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[PATCH 7/6] mm: page_mkwrite

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

The attached patch adds a new VMA operation to notify a filesystem or other
driver about the MMU generating a fault because userspace attempted to write
to a page mapped through a read-only PTE.

This facility permits the filesystem or driver to:

 (*) Implement storage allocation/reservation on attempted write, and so to
     deal with problems such as ENOSPC more gracefully (perhaps by generating
     SIGBUS).

 (*) Delay making the page writable until the contents have been written to a
     backing cache. This is useful for NFS/AFS when using FS-Cache/CacheFS.
     It permits the filesystem to have some guarantee about the state of the
     cache.

 (*) Account and limit number of dirty pages. This is one piece of the puzzle
     needed to make shared writable mapping work safely in FUSE.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-Off-By: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |    4 +++
 mm/memory.c        |   67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 mm/mmap.c          |    3 +-
 mm/mprotect.c      |    3 +-
 4 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h	2006-06-13 12:15:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h	2006-06-13 12:15:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
 	void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 	struct page * (*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long address, int *type);
 	int (*populate)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long address, unsigned long len, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long pgoff, int nonblock);
+
+	/* notification that a previously read-only page is about to become
+	 * writable, if an error is returned it will cause a SIGBUS */
+	int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page);
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	int (*set_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mempolicy *new);
 	struct mempolicy *(*get_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c	2006-06-13 12:15:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c	2006-06-13 12:20:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -1465,6 +1465,35 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *
 	 * Makes COW happen for readonly shared mappings too.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(is_shared_writable(vma->vm_flags))) {
+		if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) {
+			/*
+			 * Notify the address space that the page is about to
+			 * become writable so that it can prohibit this or wait
+			 * for the page to get into an appropriate state.
+			 *
+			 * We do this without the lock held, so that it can
+			 * sleep if it needs to.
+			 */
+			page_cache_get(old_page);
+			pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+
+			if (vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite(vma, old_page) < 0)
+				goto unwritable_page;
+
+			page_cache_release(old_page);
+
+			/*
+			 * Since we dropped the lock we need to revalidate
+			 * the PTE as someone else may have changed it.  If
+			 * they did, we just return, as we can count on the
+			 * MMU to tell us if they didn't also make it writable.
+			 */
+			page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address,
+							 &ptl);
+			if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte))
+				goto unlock;
+		}
+
 		reuse = 1;
 		dirty_page = old_page;
 		get_page(dirty_page);
@@ -1544,6 +1573,10 @@ oom:
 	if (old_page)
 		page_cache_release(old_page);
 	return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+
+unwritable_page:
+	page_cache_release(old_page);
+	return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2096,18 +2129,30 @@ retry:
 	/*
 	 * Should we do an early C-O-W break?
 	 */
-	if (write_access && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
-		struct page *page;
+	if (write_access) {
+		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
+			struct page *page;
 
-		if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
-			goto oom;
-		page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, address);
-		if (!page)
-			goto oom;
-		copy_user_highpage(page, new_page, address);
-		page_cache_release(new_page);
-		new_page = page;
-		anon = 1;
+			if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
+				goto oom;
+			page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER, vma, address);
+			if (!page)
+				goto oom;
+			copy_user_highpage(page, new_page, address);
+			page_cache_release(new_page);
+			new_page = page;
+			anon = 1;
+		} else {
+			/* if the page will be shareable, see if the backing
+			 * address space wants to know that the page is about
+			 * to become writable */
+			if (vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite &&
+			    vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite(vma, new_page) < 0
+			    ) {
+				page_cache_release(new_page);
+				return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
Index: linux-2.6/mm/mmap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mmap.c	2006-06-13 12:15:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mmap.c	2006-06-13 12:21:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -1128,7 +1128,8 @@ munmap_back:
 	 */
 	if (is_shared_writable(vm_flags) && vma->vm_file)
 		mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
-	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
+	if ((mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) ||
+			(vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite))
 		vma->vm_page_prot =
 			__pgprot(pte_val
 				(pte_wrprotect
Index: linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/mprotect.c	2006-06-13 12:15:28.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/mm/mprotect.c	2006-06-13 12:26:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ success:
 	mask = VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED;
 	if (is_shared_writable(newflags) && vma->vm_file)
 		mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
-	if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+	if ((mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) ||
+			(vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)) {
 		mask &= ~VM_SHARED;
 		is_accountable = 1;
 	}

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[PATCH 2/6] mm: balance dirty pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them.
Avoids OOM by surprise.

Changes -v2:

 - small helper function (Andrew Morton)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

 include/linux/writeback.h |    1 +
 mm/memory.c               |    5 +++--
 mm/page-writeback.c       |   10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-dirty/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-dirty.orig/mm/memory.c	2006-06-27 12:55:20.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-dirty/mm/memory.c	2006-06-27 13:01:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include <linux/rmap.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1570,7 +1571,7 @@ gotten:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
@@ -2214,7 +2215,7 @@ retry:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
Index: linux-2.6-dirty/include/linux/writeback.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-dirty.orig/include/linux/writeback.h	2006-06-27 12:43:27.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-dirty/include/linux/writeback.h	2006-06-27 13:01:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode,
 			loff_t pos, loff_t count);
 int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
 			   loff_t pos, loff_t count);
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page);
 
 /* pdflush.c */
 extern int nr_pdflush_threads;	/* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
Index: linux-2.6-dirty/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-dirty.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-27 13:00:14.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-dirty/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-27 13:01:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -256,6 +256,16 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
 		pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
 }
 
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
+		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
+		if (mapping)
+			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
  * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied

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[PATCH 2/6] mm: balance dirty pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them.
Avoids OOM by surprise.

Changes -v2:

 - small helper function (Andrew Morton)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

 include/linux/writeback.h |    1 +
 mm/memory.c               |    5 +++--
 mm/page-writeback.c       |   10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6-mm/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/mm/memory.c	2006-06-19 16:21:15.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6-mm/mm/memory.c	2006-06-19 16:21:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/delayacct.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1572,7 +1573,7 @@ gotten:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
@@ -2219,7 +2220,7 @@ retry:
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
 	if (dirty_page) {
-		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
 		put_page(dirty_page);
 	}
 	return ret;
Index: 2.6-mm/include/linux/writeback.h
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/include/linux/writeback.h	2006-06-19 16:21:13.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6-mm/include/linux/writeback.h	2006-06-19 16:21:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode,
 			loff_t pos, loff_t count);
 int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
 			   loff_t pos, loff_t count);
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page);
 
 /* pdflush.c */
 extern int nr_pdflush_threads;	/* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
Index: 2.6-mm/mm/page-writeback.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-19 16:21:15.000000000 +0200
+++ 2.6-mm/mm/page-writeback.c	2006-06-19 16:21:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -237,6 +237,16 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct a
 		pdflush_operation(background_writeout, 0);
 }
 
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
+		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+
+		if (mapping)
+			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state
  * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied

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