Dan Williams c6c78a1d45 mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to vm_operations_struct
commit 31383c6865 upstream.

Patch series "device-dax: fix unaligned munmap handling"

When device-dax is operating in huge-page mode we want it to behave like
hugetlbfs and fail attempts to split vmas into unaligned ranges.  It
would be messy to teach the munmap path about device-dax alignment
constraints in the same (hstate) way that hugetlbfs communicates this
constraint.  Instead, these patches introduce a new ->split() vm
operation.

This patch (of 2):

The device-dax interface has similar constraints as hugetlbfs in that it
requires the munmap path to unmap in huge page aligned units.  Rather
than add more custom vma handling code in __split_vma() introduce a new
vm operation to perform this vma specific check.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151130418135.4029.6783191281930729710.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Fixes: dee4107924 ("/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap")
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-05 11:26:28 +01:00
2017-11-06 11:46:42 -08:00
2017-11-30 08:41:00 +00:00

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