From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add MAP_HUGETLB example to vm/hugetlbpage.txt V2
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:46:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A84B3F0.80009@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908131449270.9805@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Eric B Munson wrote:
>
>> This patch adds an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to
>> the vm documentation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> Changes from V1:
>> Rebase to newest linux-2.6 tree
>> Change MAP_LARGEPAGE to MAP_HUGETLB to match flag name in huge page shm
>>
>> Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
>> index ea8714f..d30fa1a 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
>> @@ -337,3 +337,83 @@ int main(void)
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>> +
>> +*******************************************************************
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Example of using hugepage memory in a user application using the mmap
>> + * system call with MAP_LARGEPAGE flag. Before running this program make
>
> s/MAP_LARGEPAGE/MAP_HUGETLB/
I'm (slowly) making source code examples in Documentation/ buildable,
as this one should be, please.
I.e., put it in a separate source file (hugetlbpage.txt can refer to the
source file if you want it to) and add a Makefile similar to other
Makefiles in the Documentation/ tree.
~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-13 9:57 [PATCH 0/3] Add pseudo-anonymous huge page mappings V2 Eric B Munson
2009-08-13 9:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] hugetlbfs: Allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount V2 Eric B Munson
2009-08-13 9:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions V2 Eric B Munson
2009-08-13 9:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add MAP_HUGETLB example to vm/hugetlbpage.txt V2 Eric B Munson
2009-08-13 21:49 ` David Rientjes
2009-08-14 0:46 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2009-08-14 12:39 ` Eric B Munson
2009-08-13 21:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions V2 David Rientjes
2009-08-14 12:40 ` Eric B Munson
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