On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:16 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 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
> 

Currently the only way to create a private mapping of a huge page is to
have the file system mounted.  This change allows a huge page private
mapping without mounting the filesystem.

Eric