From: Hugh Dickins zap_pte_range already avoids wasting time to mark_page_accessed on anon pages: it can also skip anon set_page_dirty - the page only needs to be marked dirty if shared with another mm, but that will say pte_dirty too. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c @@ -574,12 +574,14 @@ static void zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gat addr) != page->index) set_pte_at(tlb->mm, addr, pte, pgoff_to_pte(page->index)); - if (pte_dirty(ptent)) - set_page_dirty(page); if (PageAnon(page)) dec_mm_counter(tlb->mm, anon_rss); - else if (pte_young(ptent)) - mark_page_accessed(page); + else { + if (pte_dirty(ptent)) + set_page_dirty(page); + if (pte_young(ptent)) + mark_page_accessed(page); + } tlb->freed++; page_remove_rmap(page); tlb_remove_page(tlb, page);