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Subject: Re: [patch] remove hugetlb syscalls
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 19:28, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> However, that said, I think hugetlbfs will almost always get used in 
> preference to the syscalls, so leaving them in may be more a statement 
> of technical correctness/cleanliness than anything else.

Just rewrite the syscall crap in userspace as library functions calling
hugetlbfs. End of problem, less kernel code, less bugs, same interface

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