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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2009-09-21 17:03:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 07:17:41 -0700
commit90f72aa58bbf076b68e289fbd71eb829bc505923 (patch)
tree992e5f59086cc77581fa10b52fb4a46fb3baf3f0 /Documentation/vm
parent6bfde05bf5c9682e255c6a2c669dc80f91af6296 (diff)
mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that will look like anonymous memory to user space. This is accomplished by using a file on the internal vfsmount. MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it. The region will behave the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages. The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only on some architectures but not on others. Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific meaning to it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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