hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB example
Add an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to the vm documentation directory and a reference to the example in hugetlbpage.txt. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -187,12 +187,14 @@ Regular chown, chgrp, and chmod commands (with right permissions) could be
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used to change the file attributes on hugetlbfs.
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Also, it is important to note that no such mount command is required if the
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applications are going to use only shmat/shmget system calls. Users who
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wish to use hugetlb page via shared memory segment should be a member of
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a supplementary group and system admin needs to configure that gid into
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/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for same or different
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applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm* calls, though the
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mount of filesystem will be required for using mmap calls.
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applications are going to use only shmat/shmget system calls or mmap with
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MAP_HUGETLB. Users who wish to use hugetlb page via shared memory segment
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should be a member of a supplementary group and system admin needs to
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configure that gid into /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for
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same or different applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm*
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calls, though the mount of filesystem will be required for using mmap calls
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without MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see
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map_hugetlb.c.
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