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SubjectRe: [RFC 2/2] Hugetlb COW
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:47:55PM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:38 -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> > [RFC] COW for hugepages
> > (Patch originally from David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>)
> >
> > This patch implements copy-on-write for hugepages, hence allowing
> > MAP_PRIVATE mappings of hugetlbfs.
> >
> > This is chiefly useful for cases where we want to use hugepages
> > "automatically" - that is to map hugepages without the knowledge of
> > the code in the final application (either via kernel hooks, or with
> > LD_PRELOAD). We can use various heuristics to determine when
> > hugepages might be a good idea, but changing the semantics of
> > anonymous memory from MAP_PRIVATE to MAP_SHARED without the app's
> > knowledge is clearly wrong.
>
> I forgot to mention in the original post that this patch is currently
> broken on ppc64 due to a problem with update_mmu_cache(). The proper
> fix is understood but backed up behind the powerpc merge activity.

Now that the merge tree and 64k pages have been pulled into mainline I
updated this patch, and sent it off to paulus. You'll fnid it under
the subject "ppc64: Make hash_preload() and update_mmu_cache() cope
with hugepages".

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