It is pointless to mark huge zero page as freeable. Let's skip it. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index f1de4ce583a6..269ed99493f0 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1542,6 +1542,9 @@ int madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page; pmd_t orig_pmd; + if (is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd)) + goto out; + orig_pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd); /* No hugepage in swapcache */ @@ -1553,6 +1556,7 @@ int madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma, set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, orig_pmd); tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr); +out: spin_unlock(ptl); ret = 0; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/