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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Updated MMAP/SHMGET 1GB patchkit
Date: Mon,  5 Nov 2012 15:24:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1352157848-29473-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> (raw)

This is the updated patchkit to allow to use 1GB pages for mmap/shmget
directly. This is needed for various software and makes it far more
convenient to use 1GB pages.

There were a lot of discussions on the ABI of v6 due to a conflict of
the new bits with the NOMMU only feature MAP_UNINITIALIZED.

However I don't think this matters at all because this feature
only works with HUGETLBFS and HUGETLBFS and NOMMU are mutually
exclusive. So any architecture which suppors HUGETLBFS will
never do MAP_UNINITIALIZED and vice versa. So there's no 
actual conflict in these flags.

Based on that I don't think any changes are needed.

So I decided to just repost with a rebase. 

Please consider applying,

Thanks,
-Andi

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             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-05 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-05 23:24 Andi Kleen [this message]
2012-11-05 23:24 ` [PATCH] MM: Support more pagesizes for MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB v7 Andi Kleen
2012-11-06 21:27   ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-07  0:39     ` Andi Kleen

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