Introduce /dev/hugetlb device that behaves similar to /dev/zero for allocating anonymous hugetlb page. It is especially beneficial that application developers can have an easy way to create MAP_PRIVATE hugetlb mappings without all the fuss about the hugetlbfs filesystem.
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