Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls

Alan Cox
2002-11-14T19:19:18Z

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

I created it with weirdass syscall, magically all my libraries and other
apps will know this so not use mremap etc on that space.

Thats complete donkey poo