From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f42.google.com (mail-oi0-f42.google.com [209.85.218.42]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6276A6B0032 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:53:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by oica37 with SMTP id a37so77802234oic.0 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com (aserp1040.oracle.com. [141.146.126.69]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c2si8344007oih.6.2015.04.17.09.53.38 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55313A71.4090202@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:53:05 -0700 From: Mike Kravetz MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] mm: madvise allow remove operation for hugetlbfs References: <1429225378-22965-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> <1429225378-22965-5-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> <20150417064435.GA21672@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20150417064435.GA21672@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Naoya Horiguchi , David Rientjes , Hugh Dickins , Davidlohr Bueso , Aneesh Kumar On 04/16/2015 11:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:02:58PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote: >> Now that we have hole punching support for hugetlbfs, we can >> also support the MADV_REMOVE interface to it. > > Meh. Just use fallocate for any new code.. > I don't have the complete context for your comment. Is there a general consensus or effort underway to deprecate the use of MADV_REMOVE? -- Mike Kravetz -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org