Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750723AbWB1DlM (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:41:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750735AbWB1DlL (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:41:11 -0500 Received: from fmr20.intel.com ([134.134.136.19]:50155 "EHLO orsfmr005.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750723AbWB1DlK (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:41:10 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages From: "Zhang, Yanmin" To: David Gibson Cc: Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, "yanmin.zhang@intel.com" , davem@davemloft.net, paulus@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, wli@holomorphy.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp, "tony.luck@intel.com" In-Reply-To: <20060228033220.GA2570@localhost.localdomain> References: <1140664780.12944.26.camel@ymzhang-perf.sh.intel.com> <20060224142844.77cbd484.akpm@osdl.org> <20060226230903.GA24422@localhost.localdomain> <1141018592.1256.37.camel@ymzhang-perf.sh.intel.com> <1141022034.1256.44.camel@ymzhang-perf.sh.intel.com> <20060227173449.26c79a44.akpm@osdl.org> <1141097034.3898.10.camel@ymzhang-perf.sh.intel.com> <20060228033220.GA2570@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1141097870.3898.17.camel@ymzhang-perf.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-9) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:37:50 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 23 On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:32, David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:23:54AM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:34, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "Zhang, Yanmin" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > 2.6.16-rc3 uses hugetlb on-demand paging, but it doesn_t support hugetlb > > > > > > > > mprotect. My patch against 2.6.16-rc3 enables this capability. > > > > > If you could adapt this testcase to fit into the libhugetlbfs > testsuite, that would be really great (from > git://ozlabs.org/~dgibson/git/libhugetlbfs.git). Otherwise I guess I > will.. Frankly, I wrote a hugetlb test suite with dozens of test cases. It could run on i386/x86_64/ia64 and caught many hugetlb bugs effectively. I am not sure if I could distribute it out of intel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/