mm: madvise allow remove operation for hugetlbfs
authorMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:01:57 +0000 (15:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 8 Sep 2015 22:35:28 +0000 (15:35 -0700)
Now that we have hole punching support for hugetlbfs, we can also
support the MADV_REMOVE interface to it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/madvise.c

index ce3a422..c889fcb 100644 (file)
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
        *prev = NULL;   /* tell sys_madvise we drop mmap_sem */
 
-       if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED | VM_HUGETLB))
+       if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)
                return -EINVAL;
 
        f = vma->vm_file;