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authorAlex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>2014-04-07 15:37:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-07 16:35:52 -0700
commita0715cc22601e8830ace98366c0c2bd8da52af52 (patch)
tree4444c61a4685d10d683e1f29177a9e7cfbccae73 /include
parent1e1836e84f87d12feac6dd225fcef5eba1ca724b (diff)
mm, thp: add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK and PRCTL_THP_DISABLE
Add VM_INIT_DEF_MASK, to allow us to set the default flags for VMs. It also adds a prctl control which allows us to set the THP disable bit in mm->def_flags so that VMs will pick up the setting as they are created. Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h3
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/prctl.h3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 35300f390eb6..c270fa68a32b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
*/
#define VM_SPECIAL (VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP)
+/* This mask defines which mm->def_flags a process can inherit its parent */
+#define VM_INIT_DEF_MASK VM_NOHUGEPAGE
+
/*
* mapping from the currently active vm_flags protection bits (the
* low four bits) to a page protection mask..
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
index 289760f424aa..58afc04c107e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
@@ -149,4 +149,7 @@
#define PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS 40
+#define PR_SET_THP_DISABLE 41
+#define PR_GET_THP_DISABLE 42
+
#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */