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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Bruce Merry <bmerry@ska.ac.za>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Is MAP_POPULATE supposed to fail silently?
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 10:54:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39da494e-d6b4-66b9-f6e1-3a9a9513f02c@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOm-9apPKrhL-ZL3JOETC+BnWaTpdRMk-Jojwp+-8BeseBppmQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/9/21 3:10 AM, Bruce Merry wrote:
> Thanks. I'm hoping that the *.rsvd.limit_in_bytes cgroup settings will
> suffice if we can upgrade the production systems to a kernel new enough to
> have them, and mlock() is a possibility as well, but it's useful to know
> about the other options. Mostly I wanted to know whether this was a kernel
> problem or a documentation problem. I've filed
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212153 for the man page.

Thanks Bruce.

As David mentioned, MAP_POPULATE is not guaranteed to succeed.

hugetlb reservation cgroup was created to handle situations like your use
case.  Hopefully, you can update systems and it will meet your needs.
-- 
Mike Kravetz


      reply	other threads:[~2021-03-09 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-09  9:33 Bruce Merry
2021-03-09 10:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-09 11:10   ` Bruce Merry
2021-03-09 18:54     ` Mike Kravetz [this message]

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