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SubjectRe: [BUG] hugetlb MAP_PRIVATE mapping vs /dev/zero
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:44:22PM -0700, William Lee Irwin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:29:18PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >> We can fix hugetlbfs_file_mmap() or read_zero_pagealigned()
> >> or both.
>
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:20:12AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > Err... surely we need to fix both, yes?
>
> No. /dev/zero is innocent. hugetlb is demanding VM_SHARED semantics
> without actually setting VM_SHARED. /dev/zero tripping over its
> nonstandard pagetable structure is not something to be dealt with
> in /dev/zero itself.

Duh, sorry, misread the sense of the VM_SHARED test in the zeromap
code.

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