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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> | 2009-09-21 17:01:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -0700 |
| commit | d19f352484467a5e518639ddff0554669c10ffab (patch) | |
| tree | 87c31fff63fd3dccb2e47ddfee878a11228b7777 /arch/alpha | |
| parent | 3866ea90d3635ddddcd77ce51087222ac7de85f2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d19f352484467a5e518639ddff0554669c10ffab.tar.bz2 | |
ksm: define MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE
The out-of-tree KSM used ioctls on fds cloned from /dev/ksm to register a
memory area for merging: we prefer now to use an madvise(2) interface.
This patch just defines MADV_MERGEABLE (to tell KSM it may merge pages in
this area found identical to pages in other mergeable areas) and
MADV_UNMERGEABLE (to undo that).
Most architectures use asm-generic, but alpha, mips, parisc, xtensa need
their own definitions: included here for mmotm convenience, but we'll
probably want to split this and feed pieces to arch maintainers.
Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h index 90d7c35d2867..c77c55756a7c 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/mman.h @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ #define MADV_DONTFORK 10 /* don't inherit across fork */ #define MADV_DOFORK 11 /* do inherit across fork */ +#define MADV_MERGEABLE 12 /* KSM may merge identical pages */ +#define MADV_UNMERGEABLE 13 /* KSM may not merge identical pages */ + /* compatibility flags */ #define MAP_FILE 0 |