Two seconds after I sent the message Benjamin told me on IRC that
PAGE_ACCESSED is included in the default page protections... duh.
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Linus,
>
> I was looking at mm/memory.c (2.4), and I've noticed that we don't call
> pte_mkyoung() on newly created pte's for most of the fault paths.
> break_cow(), for example:
>
> establish_pte(vma, address, page_table, pte_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(new_page, v
>ma->vm_page_prot))));
>
> Is there any reason why we don't set the young bit on such places ?
>
> I don't think that the window between the pte creation and the actual
> access of the pte by the process is always big enough to avoid kswapd (or
> other task trying to free memory) from ripping a created pte.
>
>
>
>
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