From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ extern void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct
#endif
extern unsigned long vma_address(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+extern int hugepage_madvise(unsigned long *vm_flags);
static inline int PageTransHuge(struct page *page)
{
VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
@@ -121,6 +122,11 @@ static inline int split_huge_page(struct
#define wait_split_huge_page(__anon_vma, __pmd) \
do { } while (0)
#define PageTransHuge(page) 0
+static inline int hugepage_madvise(unsigned long *vm_flags)
+{
+ BUG_ON(0);
+ return 0;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
#endif /* _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H */
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -840,6 +840,22 @@ out:
return ret;
}
+int hugepage_madvise(unsigned long *vm_flags)
+{
+ /*
+ * Be somewhat over-protective like KSM for now!
+ */
+ if (*vm_flags & (VM_HUGEPAGE | VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE |
+ VM_PFNMAP | VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND |
+ VM_RESERVED | VM_HUGETLB | VM_INSERTPAGE |
+ VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_SAO))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ *vm_flags |= VM_HUGEPAGE;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
{
struct page *page;
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_a
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:
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