From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] Add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:08:22 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0909181308110.27556@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08251014d2eb30e9016bab16404133f5c13beacf.1253272709.git.ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Eric B Munson 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_HUGETLB
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-18 12:21 [PATCH 0/7] Add pseudo-anonymous huge page mappings V3 Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 1/7] hugetlbfs: Allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 3/7] Add MAP_HUGETLB example Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 4/7] Add MAP_HUGETLB flag to alpha mman.h Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 5/7] Add MAP_HUGETLB flag to xtensa mman.h Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 6/7] Add MAP_HUGETLB flag to parisc mman.h Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 12:21 ` [PATCH 7/7] Add MAP_HUGETLB flag to mips mman.h Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 20:08 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2009-09-18 12:37 ` [PATCH 1/7] hugetlbfs: Allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount Eric B Munson
2009-09-18 20:06 ` David Rientjes
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