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From: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add MAP_HUGETLB example to vm/hugetlbpage.txt V2
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:57:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <617054c59f53f43f6fecfd6908cfb86ea1dd6f72.1250156841.git.ebmunson@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83949d066e2a7221a25dd74d12d6dcf7e8b4e9ba.1250156841.git.ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1250156841.git.ebmunson@us.ibm.com>

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
+ * sure the administrator has allocated enough default sized huge pages
+ * to cover the 256 MB allocation.
+ *
+ * For ia64 architecture, Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for hugepages.
+ * That means the addresses starting with 0x800000... will need to be
+ * specified.  Specifying a fixed address is not required on ppc64, i386
+ * or x86_64.
+ */
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
+#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE)
+
+#ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
+#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40
+#endif
+
+/* Only ia64 requires this */
+#ifdef __ia64__
+#define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL)
+#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_FIXED)
+#else
+#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL)
+#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB)
+#endif
+
+void check_bytes(char *addr)
+{
+	printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr));
+}
+
+void write_bytes(char *addr)
+{
+	unsigned long i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
+		*(addr + i) = (char)i;
+}
+
+void read_bytes(char *addr)
+{
+	unsigned long i;
+
+	check_bytes(addr);
+	for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
+		if (*(addr + i) != (char)i) {
+			printf("Mismatch at %lu\n", i);
+			break;
+		}
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	void *addr;
+
+	addr = mmap(ADDR, LENGTH, PROTECTION, FLAGS, 0, 0);
+	if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
+		perror("mmap");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	printf("Returned address is %p\n", addr);
+	check_bytes(addr);
+	write_bytes(addr);
+	read_bytes(addr);
+
+	munmap(addr, LENGTH);
+
+	return 0;
+}
-- 
1.6.3.2

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-13  9:57 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     ` Eric B Munson [this message]
2009-08-13 21:49       ` [PATCH 3/3] Add MAP_HUGETLB example to vm/hugetlbpage.txt V2 David Rientjes
2009-08-14  0:46         ` Randy Dunlap
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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