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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:25:06 -0400 From: Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org> To: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: [PATCH] mmap: allow MAP_HUGETLB for hugetlbfs files v2 It is counterintuitive at best that mmap'ing a hugetlbfs file with MAP_HUGETLB fails, while mmap'ing it without will a) succeed and b) return huge pages. v2: use is_file_hugepages(), as suggested by Jianguo Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@...fs.org> Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com> --- mm/mmap.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 2a594246..cdc8e7a 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1322,11 +1322,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap_pgoff, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len, if (!(flags & MAP_ANONYMOUS)) { audit_mmap_fd(fd, flags); - if (unlikely(flags & MAP_HUGETLB)) - return -EINVAL; file = fget(fd); if (!file) goto out; + retval = -EINVAL; + if (unlikely(flags & MAP_HUGETLB && !is_file_hugepages(file))) + goto out_fput; } else if (flags & MAP_HUGETLB) { struct user_struct *user = NULL; /* @@ -1346,6 +1347,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap_pgoff, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len, flags &= ~(MAP_EXECUTABLE | MAP_DENYWRITE); retval = vm_mmap_pgoff(file, addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff); +out_fput: if (file) fput(file); out: -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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