From: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>

commit  c86c97ff42cd6c6d1bd29eca4dfabeaf2b7f1020 upstream

clear_refs_write() is called earlier than clear_soft_dirty() and it is
more natural to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY (which belongs to VMA entry but not
PTEs) that early instead of clearing it a way deeper inside call chain.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
---
 fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index c947470..7ebdc88 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -738,9 +738,6 @@ static inline void clear_soft_dirty(struct vm_area_struct 
*vma,
                ptent = pte_file_clear_soft_dirty(ptent);
        }
 
-       if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY)
-               vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_SOFTDIRTY;
-
        set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte, ptent);
 #endif
 }
@@ -808,8 +805,9 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const 
char __user *buf,
 
        if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY) {
                soft_dirty_cleared = true;
-               pr_warn_once("The pagemap bits 55-60 has changed their meaning! 
"
-                               "See the linux/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt for 
details.\n");
+               pr_warn_once("The pagemap bits 55-60 has changed their meaning!"
+                            " See the linux/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt for "
+                            "details.\n");
        }
 
        task = get_proc_task(file_inode(file));
@@ -840,11 +838,17 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const 
char __user *buf,
                         *
                         * Writing 3 to /proc/pid/clear_refs only affects file
                         * mapped pages.
+                        *
+                        * Writing 4 to /proc/pid/clear_refs affects all pages.
                         */
                        if (type == CLEAR_REFS_ANON && vma->vm_file)
                                continue;
                        if (type == CLEAR_REFS_MAPPED && !vma->vm_file)
                                continue;
+                       if (type == CLEAR_REFS_SOFT_DIRTY) {
+                               if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY)
+                                       vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_SOFTDIRTY;
+                       }
                        walk_page_range(vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end,
                                        &clear_refs_walk);
                }
-- 
2.0.2

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