Re: [PATCH] mm: fix up a spurious page fault whenever it happens

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Stanislav Meduna <stano@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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