On Fri 21-12-18 11:06:25, Vlastimil Babka wrote: [...] > There's also Michal's series to expand THP eligibility reporting. If it > would be feasible for you to switch to that implementation in your > userspace, and perhaps only locally and temporarily add your patch to > your currently used older kernel versions, then the benefit would be one > less obscure exception in the kernel API. Agreed. With this patch there is no way to check for the actual state of the madvise on the mapping reliably. So the only reason the flag is actually exported. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
