From: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls
Date: 14 Nov 2002 09:51:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ugel9oavk4.fsf@panda.mostang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021114141310.A25747@infradead.org>
>>>>> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:20:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:
Christoph> mount -t hugetlbfs whocares /huge
Christoph> fd = open("/huge/nose", ..)
Christoph> mmap(.., fd, ..)
One potential downside of this is that programmers might expect
mremap(), mprotect() etc. to work on the returned memory at the
granularity of base-pages. I'm not sure though whether that was part
of the reason Linus wanted separate syscalls.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-13 23:45 [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-13 23:45 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 0:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-14 0:42 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-14 8:52 ` dada1
2002-11-14 8:52 ` dada1
2002-11-14 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-14 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <ugel9oa vk4.fsf@panda.mostang.com>
2002-11-14 15:13 ` dada1
2002-11-14 15:13 ` dada1
2002-11-14 15:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 15:31 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 15:38 ` dada1
2002-11-14 15:38 ` dada1
[not found] ` <3DD3FED2.2010901@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
2002-11-14 20:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 20:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 20:11 ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 20:11 ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 20:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 20:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 17:51 ` David Mosberger-Tang [this message]
2002-11-14 18:31 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-14 18:53 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2002-11-14 19:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-14 20:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-16 18:23 ` Jan Niehusmann
2002-11-14 20:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:31 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2002-11-14 21:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:46 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2002-11-14 19:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 20:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-16 18:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-16 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-14 20:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 20:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 20:48 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 20:48 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:11 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:11 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-14 21:40 ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 21:40 ` Rohit Seth
2002-11-14 21:59 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:59 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-11-14 21:06 ` Benjamin LaHaise
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-14 22:12 Seth, Rohit
2002-11-14 22:12 ` Seth, Rohit
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