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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:47:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:47 -0800
commita664b2d8555c659127bf8fe049a58449d394a707 (patch)
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thp: madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE)
Add madvise MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to mark regions that are not 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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ce97a2bb0b19..956a35532f47 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#define VM_GROWSUP 0x00000200
#else
#define VM_GROWSUP 0x00000000
+#define VM_NOHUGEPAGE 0x00000200 /* MADV_NOHUGEPAGE marked this vma */
#endif
#define VM_PFNMAP 0x00000400 /* Page-ranges managed without "struct page", just pure PFN */
#define VM_DENYWRITE 0x00000800 /* ETXTBSY on write attempts.. */
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