From a664b2d8555c659127bf8fe049a58449d394a707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:47:17 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/madvise.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/madvise.c') diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index ecde40a401c..bbac126e03e 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; -- cgit v1.2.3