Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 14 Nov 2002 19:52:12 +0000 |
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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
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