linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: tmpfs: update the huge folios policy for tmpfs and shmem fix

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Message-ID: <f196bce3-585f-47ab-8937-8d9e71f40c4d@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:12:02 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>,
 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, da.gomez@...sung.com, hughd@...gle.com,
 ioworker0@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 ryan.roberts@....com, wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, willy@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: tmpfs: update the huge folios policy for tmpfs and
 shmem fix

On 20.11.24 22:35, Barry Song wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 7:57 PM Baolin Wang
> <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>
>> Drop 'fadvise()' from the doc, since fadvise() has no HUGEPAGE advise
>> currently.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>
> 
> I couldn’t find any mention of HUGEPAGE in fadvise() either.
> 
> FADV_NORMAL
> FADV_RANDOM
> FADV_SEQUENTIAL
> FADV_WILLNEED
> FADV_DONTNEED
> FADV_NOREUSE

Probably it was forward-looking, and that change never happened.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb