From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@engr.sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Hugetlb demotion for x86
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 07:20:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147702817.6623.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147363859.24029.134.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 11:10 -0500, Adam Litke wrote:
> Yes, the SIGBUS issues are "fixed". Now the application is killed
> directly via VM_FAULT_OOM so it is not possible to handle the fault from
> userspace. For my libhugetlbfs-based fallback approach, I needed to
> patch the kernel so that SIGBUS was delivered to the process like in the
> days of old.
Maybe this could be off-by-default behavior that can be enabled with a
special mmap flag or madvise, or something similar. It seems that apps
don't want to get SIGBUS for low memory. But, if they have _asked_ for
it, perhaps they'd be a bit more willing.
(BTW, I fixed the bogus linux-mm cc, finally ;)
-- Dave
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