On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 05:52:13PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > From: William Kucharski <william.kuchar...@oracle.com> > > When we have the opportunity to use transparent huge pages to map a > file, we want to follow the same rules as DAX. > > Signed-off-by: William Kucharski <william.kuchar...@oracle.com> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <wi...@infradead.org> > --- > mm/huge_memory.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c > index cbe7d0619439..670a1780bd2f 100644 > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c > @@ -563,8 +563,6 @@ unsigned long thp_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp, > unsigned long addr, > > if (addr) > goto out; > - if (!IS_DAX(filp->f_mapping->host) || !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD)) > - goto out; > > addr = __thp_get_unmapped_area(filp, len, off, flags, PMD_SIZE); > if (addr)
I think you reducing ASLR without any real indication that THP is relevant for the VMA. We need to know if any huge page allocation will be *attempted* for the VMA or the file. -- Kirill A. Shutemov
