1. 22 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ksm: the mm interface to ksm · f8af4da3
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for
      better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later.
      
      When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and
      MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than
      pretending that they can be serviced.  But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them
      even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not
      touch (e.g.  hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings).
      
      Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the
      range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory.
      
      Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try
      merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it.
      Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain
      VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting.
      
      Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIzik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
      Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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