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| author | Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> | 2017-05-03 14:52:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-05-03 15:52:08 -0700 |
| commit | 93e06c7a645343d222c9a838834a51042eebbbf7 (patch) | |
| tree | 43240cec6941f6530233b3a0841e13d1ce3f1729 /mm/madvise.c | |
| parent | eb94a8784427b28479f871b5d4121c547808d0fc (diff) | |
mm: enable MADV_FREE for swapless system
Now MADV_FREE pages can be easily reclaimed even for swapless system.
We can safely enable MADV_FREE for all systems.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155648585589300bfae1d45078e7aebb3d988b87.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index d3a6712c3e14..a09d2d3dfae9 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -650,13 +650,7 @@ madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev, case MADV_WILLNEED: return madvise_willneed(vma, prev, start, end); case MADV_FREE: - /* - * XXX: In this implementation, MADV_FREE works like - * MADV_DONTNEED on swapless system or full swap. - */ - if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0) - return madvise_free(vma, prev, start, end); - /* passthrough */ + return madvise_free(vma, prev, start, end); case MADV_DONTNEED: return madvise_dontneed(vma, prev, start, end); default: |