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mm: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions

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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>
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Arnd Bergmann
2009-09-21 17:03:45 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6bfde05bf5
commit 90f72aa58b
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#define MAP_LOCKED 0x8000 /* pages are locked */
#define MAP_POPULATE 0x10000 /* populate (prefault) pagetables */
#define MAP_NONBLOCK 0x20000 /* do not block on IO */
#define MAP_STACK 0x40000 /* give out an address that is best suited for process/thread stacks */
#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x80000 /* create a huge page mapping */
/*
* Flags for msync