[PATCH v10 0/7] MADV_FREE support

[Minchan Kim]

This patch enable MADV_FREE hint for madvise syscall, which have
been supported by other OSes. [PATCH 1] includes the details.

[1] support MADVISE_FREE for !THP page so if VM encounter
THP page in syscall context, it splits THP page.
[2-6] is to preparing to call madvise syscall without THP plitting
[7] enable THP page support for MADV_FREE.

* From v9
 * Add Acked-by - Rik
 * Add THP page support - Kirill
 * Rebased-on v3.16-rc3-mmotm-2014-07-02-15-07

* From v8
 * Rebased-on v3.16-rc2-mmotm-2014-06-25-16-44

* From v7
 * Rebased-on next-20140613

* From v6
 * Remove page from swapcache in syscal time
 * Move utility functions from memory.c to madvise.c - Johannes
 * Rename untilify functtions - Johannes
 * Remove unnecessary checks from vmscan.c - Johannes
 * Rebased-on v3.15-rc5-mmotm-2014-05-16-16-56
 * Drop Reviewe-by because there was some changes since then.

* From v5
 * Fix PPC problem which don't flush TLB - Rik
 * Remove unnecessary lazyfree_range stub function - Rik
 * Rebased on v3.15-rc5

* From v4
 * Add Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei
 * Rebase on v3.15-rc1-mmotm-2014-04-15-16-14

* From v3
 * Add "how to work part" in description - Zhang
 * Add page_discardable utility function - Zhang
 * Clean up

* From v2
 * Remove forceful dirty marking of swap-readed page - Johannes
 * Remove deactivation logic of lazyfreed page
 * Rebased on 3.14
 * Remove RFC tag

* From v1
 * Use custom page table walker for madvise_free - Johannes
 * Remove PG_lazypage flag - Johannes
 * Do madvise_dontneed instead of madvise_freein swapless system


Minchan Kim (7):
  [1] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)
  [2] x86: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
  [3] sparc: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
  [4] powerpc: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
  [5] s390: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
  [6] ARM: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP
  [7] mm: Don't split THP page when syscall is called

 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h         |   2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h |   2 +
 arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h          |  12 ++
 arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h      |  16 +++
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h           |  10 ++
 include/linux/huge_mm.h                  |   3 +
 include/linux/rmap.h                     |   8 +-
 include/linux/vm_event_item.h            |   1 +
 include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h   |   1 +
 mm/huge_memory.c                         |  25 ++++
 mm/madvise.c                             | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/rmap.c                                |  38 ++++++-
 mm/vmscan.c                              |  57 +++++++---
 mm/vmstat.c                              |   1 +
 14 files changed, 348 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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