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mm: enable MADV_FREE for swapless system 

Now MADV_FREE pages can be easily reclaimed even for swapless system.
We can safely enable MADV_FREE for all systems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155648585589300bfae1d45078e7aebb3d988b87.1487965799.git.shli@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shaohua Li 2017-05-03 14:52:39 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent eb94a87844
commit 93e06c7a64
1 changed files with 1 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -650,13 +650,7 @@ madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
case MADV_WILLNEED:
return madvise_willneed(vma, prev, start, end);
case MADV_FREE:
/*
* XXX: In this implementation, MADV_FREE works like
* MADV_DONTNEED on swapless system or full swap.
*/
if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
return madvise_free(vma, prev, start, end);
/* passthrough */
case MADV_DONTNEED:
return madvise_dontneed(vma, prev, start, end);
default: