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Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regions
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tue, 5 May 2009 15:37:17 +0000 (16:37 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 8 May 2009 21:54:36 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
commit0d8f4f2015d4f9ea3057e2d521084944306e91df
tree71a3e46e916bdb121aecb70abe7c5c711b7f7bd1
parent2ee201a9d57df7a12e228c6a9b06a15014231b72
Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regions

commit a425a638c858fd10370b573bde81df3ba500e271 upstream.

madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) forces page cache readahead on a range of memory
backed by a file.  The assumption is made that the page required is
order-0 and "normal" page cache.

On hugetlbfs, this assumption is not true and order-0 pages are
allocated and inserted into the hugetlbfs page cache.  This leaks
hugetlbfs page reservations and can cause BUGs to trigger related to
corrupted page tables.

This patch causes MADV_WILLNEED to be ignored for hugetlbfs-backed
regions.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
mm/madvise.c