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 8856ADDDEC for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:53:29 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: hugetlbfs for ppc440 - kernel BUG From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Satya In-Reply-To: References: <1224622063.7654.265.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:53:13 +1100 Message-Id: <1224629593.7654.279.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: kazutomo@mcs.anl.gov, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, edi@linux.vnet.ibm.com, 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, 2008-10-21 at 15:46 -0700, Satya wrote: > Ben, > Look here: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/zeptoos/hugepages/ Thanks. What is the status ? Do they work fine ? Are they going to be re-submitted for inclusion ? Cheers, Ben. > thanks, > ./satya > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > wrote: > 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. > > >