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From: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:23:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728212354.GB8450@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217277204.23502.36.camel@nimitz>

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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Dave Hansen wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:17 -0700, Eric Munson wrote:
> > 
> > This patch stack introduces a personality flag that indicates the
> > kernel
> > should setup the stack as a hugetlbfs-backed region. A userspace
> > utility
> > may set this flag then exec a process whose stack is to be backed by
> > hugetlb pages.
> 
> I didn't see it mentioned here, but these stacks are fixed-size, right?
> They can't actually grow and are fixed in size at exec() time, right?
> 
> -- Dave

The stack VMA is a fixed size but the pages will be faulted in as needed.

-- 
Eric B Munson
IBM Linux Technology Center
ebmunson@us.ibm.com


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-28 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-28 19:17 [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks Eric Munson
2008-07-28 19:17 ` [PATCH 1/5 V2] Align stack boundaries based on personality Eric Munson
2008-07-28 20:09   ` Dave Hansen
2008-07-28 19:17 ` [PATCH 2/5 V2] Add shared and reservation control to hugetlb_file_setup Eric Munson
2008-07-28 19:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] Split boundary checking from body of do_munmap Eric Munson
2008-07-28 19:17 ` [PATCH 4/5 V2] Build hugetlb backed process stacks Eric Munson
2008-07-28 20:37   ` Dave Hansen
2008-07-28 19:17 ` [PATCH 5/5 V2] [PPC] Setup stack memory segment for hugetlb pages Eric Munson
2008-07-28 20:33 ` [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks Dave Hansen
2008-07-28 21:23   ` Eric B Munson [this message]
2008-07-30  8:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 15:04   ` Eric B Munson
2008-07-30 15:08   ` Eric B Munson
2008-07-30  8:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 17:23   ` Mel Gorman
2008-07-30 17:34     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 19:30       ` Mel Gorman
2008-07-30 19:40         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-30 20:07         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-31 10:31           ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-04 21:10             ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-05 11:11               ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-05 16:12                 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-05 16:28                   ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-05 17:53                     ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-06  9:02                       ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-06 19:50                         ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-07 16:06                           ` Mel Gorman
2008-08-07 17:29                             ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-11  8:04                               ` Mel Gorman
2008-07-31  6:04       ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-31  6:14         ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-31  6:26           ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-31 11:27             ` Mel Gorman
2008-07-31 11:51               ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-31 13:50                 ` Mel Gorman
2008-07-31 14:32                   ` Michael Ellerman
2008-08-06 18:49       ` Andi Kleen

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