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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2009-09-21 17:03:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 07:17:41 -0700 |
| commit | 90f72aa58bbf076b68e289fbd71eb829bc505923 (patch) | |
| tree | 992e5f59086cc77581fa10b52fb4a46fb3baf3f0 /include/asm-generic | |
| parent | 6bfde05bf5c9682e255c6a2c669dc80f91af6296 (diff) | |
| download | linux-90f72aa58bbf076b68e289fbd71eb829bc505923.tar.gz | |
mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that will look like anonymous memory to user space. This is accomplished by using a file on the internal vfsmount. MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it. The region will behave the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages. The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only on some architectures but not on others. Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific meaning to it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/mman.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/mman.h b/include/asm-generic/mman.h index 7cab4de2bca6..32c8bd6a196d 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/mman.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/mman.h @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #define MAP_POPULATE 0x8000 /* populate (prefault) pagetables */ #define MAP_NONBLOCK 0x10000 /* do not block on IO */ #define MAP_STACK 0x20000 /* give out an address that is best suited for process/thread stacks */ +#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40000 /* create a huge page mapping */ #define MCL_CURRENT 1 /* lock all current mappings */ #define MCL_FUTURE 2 /* lock all future mappings */ |