Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MM: Support more pagesizes for MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB v6 | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:44:24 +1100 |
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On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 17:53 +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> This is all seems to make an awful muck of the API...
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> There seems to be a reasonable argument here for an mmap3() with a > 64-bit flags argument...
I tend to agree. There's a similar issue happening when we try to shovel things into protection bits, like we do with SAO (strong access ordering) and want to do with per-page endian on embedded.
It think we need a pile of additional flag space.
Cheers, Ben.
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