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Add pseudo-anonymous huge page mappings

From:  Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject:  [PATCH 0/3] Add pseudo-anonymous huge page mappings
Date:  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:13:16 +0100
Cc:  linux-man@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>

This patch set adds a flag to mmap that allows the user to request
a mapping to be backed with huge pages.  This mapping will borrow
functionality from the huge page shm code to create a file on the
kernel internal mount and uses it to approximate an anonymous
mapping.  The MAP_LARGEPAGE flag is a modifier to MAP_ANONYMOUS
and will not work without both flags being preset.

A new flag is necessary because there is no other way to hook into
huge pages without creating a file on a hugetlbfs mount which
wouldn't be MAP_ANONYMOUS.

To userspace, this mapping will behave just like an anonymous mapping
because the file is not accessible outside of the kernel.

Eric B Munson (3):
  hugetlbfs: Allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on
    the vfs internal mount
  Add MAP_LARGEPAGE for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions
  Add MAP_LARGEPAGE example to vm/hugetlbpage.txt

 Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt  |   80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c              |   22 ++++++++--
 include/asm-generic/mman-common.h |    1 +
 include/linux/hugetlb.h           |   17 +++++++-
 ipc/shm.c                         |    3 +-
 mm/mmap.c                         |   16 +++++++
 6 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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