Re: [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pages

[Zhang, Yanmin]

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" <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.


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