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-rw-r--r--mm/madvise.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index b9ce574827c..36d6ea2b634 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ static long madvise_willneed(struct vm_area_struct * vma,
if (!file)
return -EBADF;
+ /*
+ * Page cache readahead assumes page cache pages are order-0 which
+ * is not the case for hugetlbfs. Do not give a bad return value
+ * but ignore the advice.
+ */
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB)
+ return 0;
+
if (file->f_mapping->a_ops->get_xip_mem) {
/* no bad return value, but ignore advice */
return 0;