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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 19:51:08 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-16 19:51:08 +0100
commit271ecc5253e2b317d729d366560789cd7f93836c (patch)
treed3a60bc4dfa8245ff934f357f2367db76b59e7cf /mm/madvise.c
parentMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gee... (diff)
parentautofs4: fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - some misc things - ofs2 updates - about half of MM - checkpatch updates - autofs4 update * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits) autofs4: fix string.h include in auto_dev-ioctl.h autofs4: use pr_xxx() macros directly for logging autofs4: change log print macros to not insert newline autofs4: make autofs log prints consistent autofs4: fix some white space errors autofs4: fix invalid ioctl return in autofs4_root_ioctl_unlocked() autofs4: fix coding style line length in autofs4_wait() autofs4: fix coding style problem in autofs4_get_set_timeout() autofs4: coding style fixes autofs: show pipe inode in mount options kallsyms: add support for relative offsets in kallsyms address table kallsyms: don't overload absolute symbol type for percpu symbols x86: kallsyms: disable absolute percpu symbols on !SMP checkpatch: fix another left brace warning checkpatch: improve UNSPECIFIED_INT test for bare signed/unsigned uses checkpatch: warn on bare unsigned or signed declarations without int checkpatch: exclude asm volatile from complex macro check mm: memcontrol: drop unnecessary lru locking from mem_cgroup_migrate() mm: migrate: consolidate mem_cgroup_migrate() calls mm/compaction: speed up pageblock_pfn_to_page() when zone is contiguous ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index f56825b6d2e1..a01147359f3b 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -555,8 +555,9 @@ static int madvise_hwpoison(int bhv, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
}
pr_info("Injecting memory failure for page %#lx at %#lx\n",
page_to_pfn(p), start);
- /* Ignore return value for now */
- memory_failure(page_to_pfn(p), 0, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
+ ret = memory_failure(page_to_pfn(p), 0, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
}
return 0;
}
@@ -638,14 +639,28 @@ madvise_behavior_valid(int behavior)
* some pages ahead.
* MADV_DONTNEED - the application is finished with the given range,
* so the kernel can free resources associated with it.
+ * MADV_FREE - the application marks pages in the given range as lazy free,
+ * where actual purges are postponed until memory pressure happens.
* MADV_REMOVE - the application wants to free up the given range of
* pages and associated backing store.
* MADV_DONTFORK - omit this area from child's address space when forking:
* typically, to avoid COWing pages pinned by get_user_pages().
* MADV_DOFORK - cancel MADV_DONTFORK: no longer omit this area when forking.
+ * MADV_HWPOISON - trigger memory error handler as if the given memory range
+ * were corrupted by unrecoverable hardware memory failure.
+ * MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE - try to soft-offline the given range of memory.
* MADV_MERGEABLE - the application recommends that KSM try to merge pages in
* this area with pages of identical content from other such areas.
* MADV_UNMERGEABLE- cancel MADV_MERGEABLE: no longer merge pages with others.
+ * MADV_HUGEPAGE - the application wants to back the given range by transparent
+ * huge pages in the future. Existing pages might be coalesced and
+ * new pages might be allocated as THP.
+ * MADV_NOHUGEPAGE - mark the given range as not worth being backed by
+ * transparent huge pages so the existing pages will not be
+ * coalesced into THP and new pages will not be allocated as THP.
+ * MADV_DONTDUMP - the application wants to prevent pages in the given range
+ * from being included in its core dump.
+ * MADV_DODUMP - cancel MADV_DONTDUMP: no longer exclude from core dump.
*
* return values:
* zero - success