From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8A46DDDD8 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:50:04 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: hugetlbfs for ppc440 - kernel BUG From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Satya , edi@linux.vnet.ibm.com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:47:43 +1100 Message-Id: <1224622063.7654.265.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: kazutomo@mcs.anl.gov, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 13:38 -0500, Satya wrote: > hello, > I am trying to implement hugetlbfs on the IBM Bluegene/L IO node > (ppc440) and I have a big problem as well as a few questions to ask > the group. I patched a 2.6.21.6 linux kernel (manually) with Edi > Shmueli's hugetlbfs implementation (found here: > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=8427) for this. I did > have to make slight changes (described at the end) to make it work. > My test program is a shortened version of a sys v shared memory > example described in Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt Hi ! The patchwork link unfortunately didn't survive the transition to patchwork 2. Do you know what's the status of Hugetlb support for 44x ? Is there any plan to release that for upstream inclusion ? Cheers, Ben.