On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:09:34 -0700 Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Changes in this revision address the minor comment and function name > issues brought up by Naoya Horiguchi. Patch set is also rebased on > current "mmotm/since-4.1". This revision does not introduce any > functional changes. > > As suggested during the RFC process, tests have been proposed to > libhugetlbfs as described at: > http://librelist.com/browser//libhugetlbfs/2015/6/25/patch-tests-add-tests-for-fallocate-system-call/ > fallocate(2) man page modifications are also necessary to specify > that fallocate for hugetlbfs only operates on whole pages. This > change will be submitted once the code has stabilized and been > proposed for merging. > > hugetlbfs is used today by applications that want a high degree of > control over huge page usage. Often, large hugetlbfs files are used > to map a large number huge pages into the application processes. > The applications know when page ranges within these large files will > no longer be used, and ideally would like to release them back to > the subpool or global pools for other uses. The fallocate() system > call provides an interface for preallocation and hole punching within > files. This patch set adds fallocate functionality to hugetlbfs. > > v4: > Renamed vma_abort_reservation() to vma_end_reservation(). > > ... > > v3 patch series: > Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Hillf Danton <[email protected]> eek. Please don't hide the reviews and acks in [0/n] like this. I don't expect to see them there, which causes me to park the patch series until I'm feeling awake enough to undertake the patchset's first ever review. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
