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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:47:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:47 -0800
commita664b2d8555c659127bf8fe049a58449d394a707 (patch)
tree14771f4ab93a9dda98174f21e0361a77e2aebfa6 /mm/madvise.c
parent1ddd6db43a08cba56c7ee920800980862086f1c3 (diff)
thp: madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE)
Add madvise MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to mark regions that are not 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> 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.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index ecde40a401c1..bbac126e03ed 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
goto out;
break;
case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
- error = hugepage_madvise(&new_flags);
+ case MADV_NOHUGEPAGE:
+ error = hugepage_madvise(&new_flags, behavior);
if (error)
goto out;
break;
@@ -290,6 +291,7 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
case MADV_HUGEPAGE:
+ case MADV_NOHUGEPAGE:
#endif
return 1;