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    hugetlb: allow extending ftruncate on hugetlbfs · 7aa91e10
    Ken Chen authored
    
    
    For historical reason, expanding ftruncate that increases file size on
    hugetlbfs is not allowed due to pages were pre-faulted and lack of fault
    handler.  Now that we have demand faulting on hugetlb since 2.6.15, there
    is no reason to hold back that limitation.
    
    This will make hugetlbfs behave more like a normal fs.  I'm writing a user
    level code that uses hugetlbfs but will fall back to tmpfs if there are no
    hugetlb page available in the system.  Having hugetlbfs specific ftruncate
    behavior is a bit quirky and I would like to remove that artificial
    limitation.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatar <kenchen@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarWiliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
    Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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