On Wed, 17 May 2006, Eric Paris wrote:
>
> This patch still solves the problem of the kernel currently being more
> restrictive on what we accept from userspace for the length of the mlock
> if it is a hugepage rather than a regular page. With a regular page we
> will round the value from userspace and happily go about our business of
> mlocking. For a hugepage it just rejects it if userspace doesn't align
> it themselves. This allows the kernel to do the same work for hugepages
> that it does for normal pages.
You do have a point that there's an inconsistency there. But we could
argue a long time what's inconsistent with what - I'd say it's mlock
being inconsistent with mprotect, munmap, msync, madvise, etc. I
don't see an outright reason to change from the current behaviour.
You do realize that there's almost no point in mlocking a hugepage area
anyway? (I wrote that first without the "almost", but now with hugepage
faulting, it does provide another way to fault in all the pages at once.)
Hugh
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