Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:54:09 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Hugetlbpages in very large memory machines....... |
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:45:10AM -0600, Ray Bryant wrote: > I'd still rather see us do the "allocate on fault" approach with > prereservation to maintain the current ENOMEM return code from mmap() > for hugepages. Let me work on that and get back to y'all with a patch > and see where we can go from there. I'll start by taking a look at > all of the arch dependent hugetlbpage.c's and see how common they all > are and move the common code up to mm/hugetlbpage.c. > (or did WLI's note imply that this is impossible?)
It would be a mistake to put any pagetable handling functions in the core. Things above that level, e.g. callers that don't examine the pagetables directly in favor of calling lower-level API's, are fine.
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