Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls

Alan Cox
2002-11-14T19:41:11Z

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 19:52, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 18:53, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> > But that's excactly the point. The hugepage interface returns a
> > different kind of virtual memory. There are tons of programs out
> > there using mmap(). If such a program gets fed a path to the
> > hugepagefs, it might end up with huge pages without knowing anything
> > about huge pages. For the most part, that might work fine, but it
> > could lead to subtle failures.
>
> Your argument makes sense. You are arguing

Makes no sense rather 8)