Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()

2017-08-07 Thread Michal Hocko
Hi, I am one foot out of office and will be offline for two days so I didn't get to review the patch yet but this information is an useful information about the usecase that should be in the patch directly for future reference. On Mon 07-08-17 16:47:51, Mike Kravetz wrote: > This patch came out

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()

2017-08-07 Thread Michal Hocko
Hi, I am one foot out of office and will be offline for two days so I didn't get to review the patch yet but this information is an useful information about the usecase that should be in the patch directly for future reference. On Mon 07-08-17 16:47:51, Mike Kravetz wrote: > This patch came out

[RFC PATCH 0/1] Add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()

2017-08-07 Thread Mike Kravetz
This patch came out of discussions in this e-mail thread [1]. The Oracle JVM team is developing a new garbage collection model. This new model requires multiple mappings of the same anonymous memory. One straight forward way to accomplish this is with memfd_create. They can use the returned fd

[RFC PATCH 0/1] Add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create()

2017-08-07 Thread Mike Kravetz
This patch came out of discussions in this e-mail thread [1]. The Oracle JVM team is developing a new garbage collection model. This new model requires multiple mappings of the same anonymous memory. One straight forward way to accomplish this is with memfd_create. They can use the returned fd