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  • * Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add pseudo-anonymous huge page mappings V3
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    @ 2009-08-17 13:53 ` Andi Kleen
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    From: Andi Kleen @ 2009-08-17 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Eric B Munson; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, linux-man, akpm, mtk.manpages
    
    Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> writes:
    
    > This patch set adds a flag to mmap that allows the user to request
    > a mapping to be backed with huge pages.  This mapping will borrow
    > functionality from the huge page shm code to create a file on the
    > kernel internal mount and uses it to approximate an anonymous
    > mapping.  The MAP_HUGETLB flag is a modifier to MAP_ANONYMOUS
    > and will not work without both flags being preset.
    
    
    You seem to have forgotten to describe WHY you want this?
    
    >From my guess, this seems to be another step into turning hugetlb.c
    into another parallel VM implementation. Instead of basically
    developing two parallel VMs wouldn't it be better to unify the two?
    
    I think extending hugetlb.c forever without ever thinking about
    that is not the right approach.
    
    -Andi
    
    -- 
    ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
    
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    2009-08-14 19:19   ` [PATCH 1/3] hugetlbfs: Allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount V3 David Rientjes
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    2009-08-14 19:20       ` [PATCH 3/3] Add MAP_HUGETLB example V3 David Rientjes
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