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From: toka <atrockz@gmail.com>
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Subject: huge page access..
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hi everyone,
   i am a kernel newbie, i wanted to know something about hugetlbfs.
     -   is huge pages only accessible to root user ?
     -   if so, when a process tries to accesses a huge pages, how
does  kernel checks if its an authorized User ID (or root user id) ?