From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2DE6B005A for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:54:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:54:35 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: HugeTLB: Driver example Message-ID: <20090914165435.GA21554@infradead.org> References: <202cde0e0909132230y52b805a4i8792f2e287b01acb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202cde0e0909132230y52b805a4i8792f2e287b01acb@mail.gmail.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Alexey Korolev Cc: Mel Gorman , Eric Munson , Alexey Korolev , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:30:12PM +1200, Alexey Korolev wrote: > There is an example of simple driver which provides huge pages mapping > for user level applications. The procedure for mapping of huge pages > to userspace by the driver is: > > 1. Create a hugetlb file on vfs mount of hugetlbfs (h_file) Note that to get your support code included at all you'll need a real intree driver, not just an example. That is if VM people are happy with the general concept. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org