On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A region created for morecore is prefaulted to ensure sufficient hugepages > exist in the pool. This was necessary on kernels older than 2.6.27-rc1 as > MAP_PRIVATE mappings do not reserve pages in advance. Prefaulting is the > only means of ensuring an application does not receive a SIGBUS due to a > failed fault. > > The get_huge_pages() API has similar requirements in that it needs to > prefault a region to ensure future faults succeed. This patch splits out > prefaulting into a separate utility function so it can be used by > get_huge_pages(). > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks, Eric
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