Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2013 07:45:09 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: fix up a spurious page fault whenever it happens | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org> wrote: > > It did not crash overnight, but it also does not show any > minor fault counted for the threads
Page faults that don't cause us to map a page (ie a spurious one, or one that just updates dirty/accessed bits) don't show up as even minor faults. Thing of the major/minor as "mapping activity" not a page fault count.
So if this is due to some stuck TLB entry, that wouldn't show up anyway.
Linus
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