Re: hugepage patches

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:18:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Also, don't mark hugepages as all PageReserved any more.  That's preenting
> > callers from doing proper refcounting.  Any code which does a user pagetable
> > walk and hits part of a hugepage will now handle it transparently.
> 
> Heh, that's helping me a lot and makes get_one_user_page very
> simple again (and simplify the follow_huge_* stuff even more).
> 
> This could help futex slow-path and remove loads of code.
> 
> Once this hugetlb stuff settles down a bit, I'll rewrite the
> page-walking again to accomodate this. No API changes, just
> internal rewrites.

OK...

> So please tell the linux-mm list, when it's finished and I'll have
> sth. ready for -mm in the first week of March[1].

Well I'm thinking of renaming it to hugebugfs.  It should be settled down
shortly.


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