On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Eric B Munson wrote: > Binaries for ppc64 are already aligned properly for 64KB backed program > segments so it should be reasonable to use 64KB huge pages for these > segments without relinking, however this requires preloading libhugetlbfs. > Currently hugectl will not allow libhugetlbfs to be preloaded if huge page > backed segments are requested. This patch introduces the --force-preload > switch that allows the user to bypass this check and preload libhugetlbfs > any time. > > This is because backing text/data assumed that linking with libhugetlbfs > is required. If an application is already linked, then the library > cannot also be preloaded. In the case of PPC64, this assumption is not > true 100% of the time but hugectl has no way of automatically detecting > that case. > > Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmun...@us.ibm.com> > Acked-by: Mel Gorman <m...@csn.ul.ie> > > ---
Applied, thanks. Eric
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