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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:46:55 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:42 -0800
commit0af4e98b6b095c74588af04872f83d333c958c32 (patch)
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parentf66055ab6fb9731dbfce320c5202ef4441b5d77f (diff)
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thp: madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE)
Add madvise MADV_HUGEPAGE to mark regions that are important to be hugepage backed. Return -EINVAL if the vma is not of an anonymous type, or the feature isn't built into the kernel. Never silently return success. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 319528b8db74..ecde40a401c1 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
if (error)
goto out;
break;
+ case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
+ error = hugepage_madvise(&new_flags);
+ if (error)
+ goto out;
+ break;
}
if (new_flags == vma->vm_flags) {
@@ -283,6 +288,9 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
case MADV_MERGEABLE:
case MADV_UNMERGEABLE:
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
+#endif
return 1;
default: