From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m42GIS9Q017064 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 12:18:28 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m42GGJ5I1075736 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 12:16:19 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m42GGJ10008918 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 12:16:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Add shared and reserve control to hugetlb_file_setup From: Dave Hansen In-Reply-To: <1209693089.8483.22.camel@grover.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <1209693089.8483.22.camel@grover.beaverton.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 09:16:17 -0700 Message-Id: <1209744977.7763.29.camel@nimitz.home.sr71.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: ebmunson@us.ibm.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, nacc , mel@csn.ul.ie, andyw List-ID: On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 18:51 -0700, Eric B Munson wrote: > In order to back stacks with huge pages, we will want to make hugetlbfs > files to back them; these will be used to back private mappings. > Currently hugetlb_file_setup creates files to back shared memory segments. > Modify this to create both private and shared files, Hugetlbfs can currently have private mappings, right? Why not just use the existing ones instead of creating a new variety with hugetlb_file_setup()? -- Dave -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org