This patch enable MADV_FREE hint for madvise syscall, which have been supported by other OSes. [PATCH 1] includes the details. [1] support MADVISE_FREE for !THP page so if VM encounter THP page in syscall context, it splits THP page. [2-6] is to preparing to call madvise syscall without THP plitting [7] enable THP page support for MADV_FREE. * From v9 * Add Acked-by - Rik * Add THP page support - Kirill * Rebased-on v3.16-rc3-mmotm-2014-07-02-15-07 * From v8 * Rebased-on v3.16-rc2-mmotm-2014-06-25-16-44 * From v7 * Rebased-on next-20140613 * From v6 * Remove page from swapcache in syscal time * Move utility functions from memory.c to madvise.c - Johannes * Rename untilify functtions - Johannes * Remove unnecessary checks from vmscan.c - Johannes * Rebased-on v3.15-rc5-mmotm-2014-05-16-16-56 * Drop Reviewe-by because there was some changes since then. * From v5 * Fix PPC problem which don't flush TLB - Rik * Remove unnecessary lazyfree_range stub function - Rik * Rebased on v3.15-rc5 * From v4 * Add Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei * Rebase on v3.15-rc1-mmotm-2014-04-15-16-14 * From v3 * Add "how to work part" in description - Zhang * Add page_discardable utility function - Zhang * Clean up * From v2 * Remove forceful dirty marking of swap-readed page - Johannes * Remove deactivation logic of lazyfreed page * Rebased on 3.14 * Remove RFC tag * From v1 * Use custom page table walker for madvise_free - Johannes * Remove PG_lazypage flag - Johannes * Do madvise_dontneed instead of madvise_freein swapless system Minchan Kim (7): [1] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE) [2] x86: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP [3] sparc: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP [4] powerpc: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP [5] s390: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP [6] ARM: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP [7] mm: Don't split THP page when syscall is called arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 + arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h | 2 + arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++ arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 16 +++ arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 10 ++ include/linux/huge_mm.h | 3 + include/linux/rmap.h | 8 +- include/linux/vm_event_item.h | 1 + include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 1 + mm/huge_memory.c | 25 ++++ mm/madvise.c | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/rmap.c | 38 ++++++- mm/vmscan.c | 57 +++++++--- mm/vmstat.c | 1 + 14 files changed, 348 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.0.0 -- 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>