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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Mark Rustad <mrustad@mac.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15-rc5] hugetlb: make make_huge_pte global and fix coding style
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:08:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134151696.3278.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4ECF4F0-9442-4FFE-BE55-3EF7A1CC40F4@mac.com>

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 11:55 -0600, Mark Rustad wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> > What driver needs to map huge pages?  Is it in the kernel tree  
> > now?  If
> > not, can you post the source, please?
> 
> It is a funky driver for an embedded system. I can't imagine it ever  
> being in the kernel tree, because not many people want to share 768M  
> of contiguous physical memory.
> 
> I can post the source, but it really is a bunch of random stuff for  
> am embedded application. We do make it available as part of our GPL  
> source release to customers.

You'd be surprised.  If we know what you're actually trying to do, we
might be able to suggest another option.  As Adam said, having userspace
mmap a hugetlb area, then hand it to the driver would certainly keep
your kernel modifications to a minimum.

-- Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-09 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-09 16:39 [PATCH 2.6.15-rc5] hugetlb: make make_huge_pte global and fix coding style Mark Rustad
2005-12-09 17:05 ` Adam Litke
2005-12-09 17:50   ` Mark Rustad
2005-12-09 17:16 ` Dave Hansen
2005-12-09 17:55   ` Mark Rustad
2005-12-09 18:08     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2005-12-09 19:51       ` Mark Rustad
2005-12-09 20:37         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-09 21:18           ` Mark Rustad
2005-12-09 22:12             ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-10  6:01               ` Mark Rustad

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