hugetlbfs for ppc440 - kernel BUG

Satya satyakiran at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 09:46:21 EST 2008


Ben,
Look here: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/zeptoos/hugepages/

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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