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Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2022 10:40:07 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To:     CGEL <cgel.zte@gmail.com>
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On Mon 04-07-22 07:29:41, CGEL wrote:
[...]
> Maybe new semantics is needed similarly to MADV_NOHUGEPAGE that ensures that
> there will *not* be huge pages.

How do you achieve that with a backward compatibility?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs