From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add MAP_LARGEPAGE for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:07:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0908112207y186d0aav6e0e55ce070778cf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a45eb555ca7d9e23e5eb051e27f757ae70a6b0c5.1249999949.git.ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Eric,
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Eric B Munson<ebmunson@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> This patch adds a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge
> page region that will look like anonymous memory to user space. This
> is accomplished by using a file on the internal vfsmount. MAP_LARGEPAGE
> is a modifier of MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it. The
> region will behave the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.
Does this flag provide functionality analogous to shmget(SHM_HUGETLB)?
If so, would iot not make sense to name it similarly (i.e.,
MAP_HUGETLB)?
Cheers,
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-12 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-11 22:13 [PATCH 0/3] Add pseudo-anonymous huge page mappings Eric B Munson
2009-08-11 22:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] hugetlbfs: Allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount Eric B Munson
2009-08-11 22:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add MAP_LARGEPAGE for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions Eric B Munson
2009-08-11 22:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add MAP_LARGEPAGE example to vm/hugetlbpage.txt Eric B Munson
2009-08-12 5:07 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2009-08-12 9:08 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add MAP_LARGEPAGE for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions Eric B Munson
2009-08-12 5:45 ` Pekka Enberg
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