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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-05-07 11:17:13 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-05-07 11:17:34 +0200
commit44347d947f628060b92449702071bfe1d31dfb75 (patch)
treec6ed74610d5b3295df4296659f80f5feb94b28cc /mm/madvise.c
parentd94fc523f3c35bd8013f04827e94756cbc0212f4 (diff)
parent413f81eba35d6ede9289b0c8a920c013a84fac71 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index b9ce574827c..36d6ea2b634 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
if (!file)
return -EBADF;
+ /*
+ * Page cache readahead assumes page cache pages are order-0 which
+ * is not the case for hugetlbfs. Do not give a bad return value
+ * but ignore the advice.
+ */
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB)
+ return 0;
+
if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_mem) {
/* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
return 0;