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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hugetlb: powerpc: Actively close unused htlb regions on vma close

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:08:27PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Adam Litke wrote:
>
> > The real reason I want to "close" hugetlb regions (even on 64bit
> > platforms) is so a process can replace a previous hugetlb mapping with
> > normal pages when huge pages become scarce. An example would be the
> > hugetlb morecore (malloc) feature in libhugetlbfs :)
>
> Well that approach wont work on IA64 it seems.

Yes, but there's not much that can be done about that.

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