Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
14 Nov 2002 19:52:12 +0000


On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 18:53, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> But that's excactly the point. The hugepage interface returns a
> different kind of virtual memory. There are tons of programs out
> there using mmap(). If such a program gets fed a path to the
> hugepagefs, it might end up with huge pages without knowing anything
> about huge pages. For the most part, that might work fine, but it
> could lead to subtle failures.

Your argument makes sense. You are arguing

I created it with weirdass syscall, magically all my libraries and other
apps will know this so not use mremap etc on that space.

Thats complete donkey poo

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