On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

> Eric,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Eric B Munson<ebmunson@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > This patch adds a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge
> > page region that will look like anonymous memory to user space.  This
> > is accomplished by using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_LARGEPAGE
> > is a modifier of MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The
> > region will behave the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.
> 
> Does this flag provide functionality analogous to shmget(SHM_HUGETLB)?
> If so, would iot not make sense to name it similarly (i.e.,
> MAP_HUGETLB)?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
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> Michael Kerrisk
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> 

I have no particular attachment to MAP_LARGEPAGE, I will make this chage for V2.

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Eric B Munson
IBM Linux Technology Center
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