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author | Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> | 2009-09-22 04:03:48 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 18:17:42 +0400 |
commit | 94bf5ceac095c7d4cb5e4d40fa7e2dd81d722b75 (patch) | |
tree | 5e41a60cbc7281cb68df1d4a2139933877096616 /Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c | |
parent | 4e52780d41a741fb4861ae1df2413dd816ec11b1 (diff) | |
download | linux-94bf5ceac095c7d4cb5e4d40fa7e2dd81d722b75.tar.xz |
hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB example
Add an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to the vm documentation
directory and a reference to the example in hugetlbpage.txt.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c | 77 |
1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e2bdae37f499 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +/* + * Example of using hugepage memory in a user application using the mmap + * system call with MAP_HUGETLB flag. Before running this program make + * sure the administrator has allocated enough default sized huge pages + * to cover the 256 MB allocation. + * + * For ia64 architecture, Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for hugepages. + * That means the addresses starting with 0x800000... will need to be + * specified. Specifying a fixed address is not required on ppc64, i386 + * or x86_64. + */ +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <sys/mman.h> +#include <fcntl.h> + +#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024) +#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) + +#ifndef MAP_HUGETLB +#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40 +#endif + +/* Only ia64 requires this */ +#ifdef __ia64__ +#define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL) +#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_FIXED) +#else +#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) +#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB) +#endif + +void check_bytes(char *addr) +{ + printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr)); +} + +void write_bytes(char *addr) +{ + unsigned long i; + + for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) + *(addr + i) = (char)i; +} + +void read_bytes(char *addr) +{ + unsigned long i; + + check_bytes(addr); + for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) + if (*(addr + i) != (char)i) { + printf("Mismatch at %lu\n", i); + break; + } +} + +int main(void) +{ + void *addr; + + addr = mmap(ADDR, LENGTH, PROTECTION, FLAGS, 0, 0); + if (addr == MAP_FAILED) { + perror("mmap"); + exit(1); + } + + printf("Returned address is %p\n", addr); + check_bytes(addr); + write_bytes(addr); + read_bytes(addr); + + munmap(addr, LENGTH); + + return 0; +} |