Re: [RFC][PATCH] hugetlbfs read support

Bill Irwin
2007-07-10T15:37:52Z

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:28:11PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Support for reading from hugetlbfs files. libhugetlbfs lets application
> text/data to be placed in large pages. When we do that, oprofile doesn't
> work - since it tries to read from it.
> This code is very similar to what do_generic_mapping_read() does, but
> I can't use it since it has PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumptions. Christoph
> Lamater's cleanup to pagecache would hopefully give me all of this.
> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>

What's the testing status of all this? I thoroughly approve of the
concept, of course.

-- wli