| 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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