The patch titled thp: madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was thp-madvisemadv_hugepage.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: thp: madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/huge_mm.h | 6 ++++++ mm/huge_memory.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ mm/madvise.c | 8 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/huge_mm.h~thp-madvisemadv_hugepage include/linux/huge_mm.h --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h~thp-madvisemadv_hugepage +++ a/include/linux/huge_mm.h @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ extern void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct #if HPAGE_PMD_ORDER > MAX_ORDER #error "hugepages can't be allocated by the buddy allocator" #endif +extern int hugepage_madvise(unsigned long *vm_flags); #else /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */ #define HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT ({ BUG(); 0; }) #define HPAGE_PMD_MASK ({ BUG(); 0; }) @@ -113,6 +114,11 @@ static inline int split_huge_page(struct do { } while (0) #define wait_split_huge_page(__anon_vma, __pmd) \ do { } while (0) +static inline int hugepage_madvise(unsigned long *vm_flags) +{ + BUG(); + return 0; +} #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */ #endif /* _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H */ diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~thp-madvisemadv_hugepage mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~thp-madvisemadv_hugepage +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -896,6 +896,22 @@ 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 -puN mm/madvise.c~thp-madvisemadv_hugepage mm/madvise.c --- a/mm/madvise.c~thp-madvisemadv_hugepage +++ a/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: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch thp-add-pagetranscompound.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html