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Commit a425a638 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regions



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: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 99ee1297
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