This is a resend of the patch sent in the RFC: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502149672-7759-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx It addresses the issues with the commit message raised by Michal Hocko. Only the commit message is modified, the code from the RFC patch is the same. In addition, a new patch is included to modify the memfd selftest. The modifications allow basic functionality testing of memfd_create with hugetlbfs. Mike Kravetz (2): mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create() selftests/memfd: Add memfd_create hugetlbfs selftest include/uapi/linux/memfd.h | 24 ++ mm/shmem.c | 37 ++- tools/testing/selftests/memfd/Makefile | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/memfd/memfd_test.c | 372 ++++++++++++++++++++++------- tools/testing/selftests/memfd/run_tests.sh | 69 ++++++ 5 files changed, 412 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/memfd/run_tests.sh -- 2.7.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>