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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mremap.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c index a39b7b91be46..93adddecf978 100644 --- a/mm/mremap.c +++ b/mm/mremap.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <linux/hugetlb.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/shm.h> +#include <linux/ksm.h> #include <linux/mman.h> #include <linux/swap.h> #include <linux/capability.h> @@ -182,6 +183,17 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (mm->map_count >= sysctl_max_map_count - 3) return -ENOMEM; + /* + * Advise KSM to break any KSM pages in the area to be moved: + * it would be confusing if they were to turn up at the new + * location, where they happen to coincide with different KSM + * pages recently unmapped. But leave vma->vm_flags as it was, + * so KSM can come around to merge on vma and new_vma afterwards. + */ + if (ksm_madvise(vma, old_addr, old_addr + old_len, + MADV_UNMERGEABLE, &vm_flags)) + return -ENOMEM; + new_pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((old_addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT); new_vma = copy_vma(&vma, new_addr, new_len, new_pgoff); if (!new_vma) |