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| author | Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> | 2009-09-21 17:03:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -0700 |
| commit | 94bf5ceac095c7d4cb5e4d40fa7e2dd81d722b75 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e41a60cbc7281cb68df1d4a2139933877096616 /Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | |
| parent | 4e52780d41a741fb4861ae1df2413dd816ec11b1 (diff) | |
hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB example
Add an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to the vm documentation
directory and a reference to the example in hugetlbpage.txt.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 3a167be78c2..82a7bd1800b 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -187,12 +187,14 @@ Regular chown, chgrp, and chmod commands (with right permissions) could be used to change the file attributes on hugetlbfs. Also, it is important to note that no such mount command is required if the -applications are going to use only shmat/shmget system calls. Users who -wish to use hugetlb page via shared memory segment should be a member of -a supplementary group and system admin needs to configure that gid into -/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for same or different -applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm* calls, though the -mount of filesystem will be required for using mmap calls. +applications are going to use only shmat/shmget system calls or mmap with +MAP_HUGETLB. Users who wish to use hugetlb page via shared memory segment +should be a member of a supplementary group and system admin needs to +configure that gid into /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for +same or different applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm* +calls, though the mount of filesystem will be required for using mmap calls +without MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see +map_hugetlb.c. ******************************************************************* |