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Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:13:56PM +0100, dada1 wrote:
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>>Thanks Christoph
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>>If I asked, this is because I tried the obvious and it doesnt work.
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>It's a file.  You need to use MAP_SHARED.
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This is not the problem with MAP_SHARED.  It is the lack of  (arch 
specific) hugepage aligned function support in the kernel. You can use 
the mmap on hugetlbfs using only MAP_FIXED with properly aligned 
addresses (but then this also is only a hint to kernel).  With addr == 
 NULL in mmap, the function is bound to fail almost all the times.


Thanks Ben for letting me know the problem with previous post.

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