From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zps76.corp.google.com (zps76.corp.google.com [172.25.146.76]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id l2NMeN4A028513 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:40:24 -0700 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (ancc5.prod.google.com [10.100.29.5]) by zps76.corp.google.com with ESMTP id l2NMdpqh018332 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:40:22 -0700 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c5so1312636anc for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:40:22 -0700 From: "Ken Chen" Subject: [patch 0/2] introduce /dev/hugetlb char device MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Adam Litke , William Lee Irwin III , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Introduce /dev/hugetlb device that behaves similar to /dev/zero for allocating anonymous hugetlb page. It is especially beneficial that application developers can have an easy way to create MAP_PRIVATE hugetlb mappings without all the fuss about the hugetlbfs filesystem. Two follow on patches has more detail description for each changeset. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org