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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mrustad@mac.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16 hugetlbfs problem
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:13:00 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060322.141300.62168729.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BE2452EA-2566-4C2A-B07D-BD63404A42C1@mac.com>

From: Mark Rustad <mrustad@mac.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:10:33 -0600

> I seem to be having trouble using hugetlbfs with kernel 2.6.16. I  
> have a small test program that worked with 2.6.16-rc5, but fails with  
> 2.6.16-rc6 or the release. The program is below. Given a path to a  
> file on a hugetlbfs, it opens/creates the file, mmaps it and tries to  
> access the first word. On 2.6.16-rc5, it works. On 2.6.16, it hangs  
> page-faulting until it is killed.

On what platform?  Things like hugetlb and address space layout
(you're requesting a specific mmap() address I noticed) are very
platform specific.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-22 22:10 2.6.16 hugetlbfs problem Mark Rustad
2006-03-22 22:13 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-03-22 23:32   ` Mark Rustad
2006-03-23  5:43     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-03-23 15:36       ` Mark Rustad
2006-03-23 19:13         ` Mark Rustad
2006-03-24 17:52           ` 2.6.16 hugetlbfs problem - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Mark Rustad
2006-03-25  1:24             ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-03-25  1:47               ` David S. Miller
2006-03-25  2:53               ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-25  7:29                 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-03-25  8:15                   ` Andrew Morton

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