thp: madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE)

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@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrea Arcangeli 2011-01-13 15:46:55 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 0af4e98b6b
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@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ extern void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd);
#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 page *page)
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 */