Messages in this thread | | | From | "Seth, Rohit" <> | Subject | RE: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:12:06 -0800 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: William Lee Irwin III [mailto:wli@holomorphy.com] > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:11:32PM -0800, Rohit Seth wrote: > > This is not the problem with MAP_SHARED. It is the lack of (arch > > specific) hugepage aligned function support in the kernel. > You can use > > the mmap on hugetlbfs using only MAP_FIXED with properly aligned > > addresses (but then this also is only a hint to kernel). > With addr == > > NULL in mmap, the function is bound to fail almost all the times. > > There's very little standing in the way of automatic > placement. If in your opinion it should be implemented, I'll > add that feature today. > mmap with addr==NULL is in my opinion a very useful thing.
> IIRC you mentioned you would like to export the arch-specific > hugepage-aligned vma placement functions; once these are > available, it should be trivial to reuse them. > > I will export those functions from arch specific trees. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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