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author | David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> | 2006-01-06 00:10:44 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-06 08:33:23 -0800 |
commit | 1e8f889b10d8d2223105719e36ce45688fedbd59 (patch) | |
tree | 86dee89e4363aaf6c7ec7c9751ea37f725c95bb9 /fs/ocfs2/ver.h | |
parent | 86e5216f8d8aa258ba836caffe2613d79cc9aead (diff) |
[PATCH] Hugetlb: Copy on Write support
Implement copy-on-write support for hugetlb mappings so MAP_PRIVATE can be
supported. This helps us to safely use hugetlb pages in many more
applications. The patch makes the following changes. If needed, I also have
it broken out according to the following paragraphs.
1. Add a pair of functions to set/clear write access on huge ptes. The
writable check in make_huge_pte is moved out to the caller for use by COW
later.
2. Hugetlb copy-on-write requires special case handling in the following
situations:
- copy_hugetlb_page_range() - Copied pages must be write protected so
a COW fault will be triggered (if necessary) if those pages are written
to.
- find_or_alloc_huge_page() - Only MAP_SHARED pages are added to the
page cache. MAP_PRIVATE pages still need to be locked however.
3. Provide hugetlb_cow() and calls from hugetlb_fault() and
hugetlb_no_page() which handles the COW fault by making the actual copy.
4. Remove the check in hugetlbfs_file_map() so that MAP_PRIVATE mmaps
will be allowed. Make MAP_HUGETLB exempt from the depricated VM_RESERVED
mapping check.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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