From: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> get_huge_pages() currently depends on private-reserves to function properly as it does not prefault regions even when HUGETLB_NO_PREFAULT is not set. The impact is that on older kernels get_huge_pages() may return a pointer to a hugepage-backed region that later faults with SIGBUS as the hugepage pool is too small. A side-effect of this is that the get_huge_pages() regression test fails on older kernels as get_huge_pages() returns a pointer when NULL is expected.
This patchset begins by taking the prefault logic out of morecore.c and making it a utility function. The second patch adds prefault logic to get_huge_pages(). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
