Subject: madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE)

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

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>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ extern void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct
 #endif
 
 extern unsigned long vma_address(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+extern int hugepage_madvise(unsigned long *vm_flags);
 static inline int PageTransHuge(struct page *page)
 {
 	VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
@@ -121,6 +122,11 @@ static inline int split_huge_page(struct
 #define wait_split_huge_page(__anon_vma, __pmd)	\
 	do { } while (0)
 #define PageTransHuge(page) 0
+static inline int hugepage_madvise(unsigned long *vm_flags)
+{
+	BUG_ON(0);
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H */
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -895,6 +895,22 @@ 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 --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/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: