From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933222AbbDQQxp (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:53:45 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:28117 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753608AbbDQQxn (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: <55313A71.4090202@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:53:05 -0700 From: Mike Kravetz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 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 X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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