Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: powerpc: Actively close unused htlb regions on vma close

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Adam Litke wrote:

> The real reason I want to "close" hugetlb regions (even on 64bit
> platforms) is so a process can replace a previous hugetlb mapping with
> normal pages when huge pages become scarce.  An example would be the
> hugetlb morecore (malloc) feature in libhugetlbfs :)

Well that approach wont work on IA64 it seems.
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