hugetlbfs for ppc440 - kernel BUG
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 22 09:53:13 EST 2008
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:46 -0700, Satya wrote:
> Ben,
> Look here: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/zeptoos/hugepages/
Thanks. What is the status ? Do they work fine ? Are they going to be
re-submitted for inclusion ?
Cheers,
Ben.
> thanks,
> ./satya
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 13:38 -0500, Satya wrote:
> > hello,
> > I am trying to implement hugetlbfs on the IBM Bluegene/L IO
> node
> > (ppc440) and I have a big problem as well as a few questions
> to ask
> > the group. I patched a 2.6.21.6 linux kernel (manually) with
> Edi
> > Shmueli's hugetlbfs implementation (found here:
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=8427) for
> this. I did
> > have to make slight changes (described at the end) to make
> it work.
> > My test program is a shortened version of a sys v shared
> memory
> > example described in Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
>
>
> Hi !
>
> The patchwork link unfortunately didn't survive the transition
> to
> patchwork 2.
>
> Do you know what's the status of Hugetlb support for 44x ? Is
> there any
> plan to release that for upstream inclusion ?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>
>
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