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Steve Capper authored
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: default avatarSteve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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