From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992593AbXCWWkg (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:40:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992594AbXCWWkg (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:40:36 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:42544 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992593AbXCWWkf (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:40:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version: content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SO74s92P7bWXYwpOnmdWOTVR/uADdQarPyTjKHgQXnSaTDDJqw664BNIGI0CZbnDj tBrvZwFscef3j23UpB10Q== Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:40:22 -0700 From: "Ken Chen" To: "Adam Litke" , "William Lee Irwin III" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [patch 0/2] introduce /dev/hugetlb char device MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Introduce /dev/hugetlb device that behaves similar to /dev/zero for allocating anonymous hugetlb page. It is especially beneficial that application developers can have an easy way to create MAP_PRIVATE hugetlb mappings without all the fuss about the hugetlbfs filesystem. Two follow on patches has more detail description for each changeset. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen