linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:41:39 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, libhugetlbfs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5 V2] Huge page backed user-space stacks

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:17:10 -0700 Eric Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Certain workloads benefit if their data or text segments are backed by
> huge pages. The stack is no exception to this rule but there is no
> mechanism currently that allows the backing of a stack reliably with
> huge pages.  Doing this from userspace is excessively messy and has some
> awkward restrictions.  Particularly on POWER where 256MB of address space
> gets wasted if the stack is setup there.
> 
> This patch stack introduces a personality flag that indicates the kernel
> should setup the stack as a hugetlbfs-backed region. A userspace utility
> may set this flag then exec a process whose stack is to be backed by
> hugetlb pages.
> 
> Eric Munson (5):
>   Align stack boundaries based on personality
>   Add shared and reservation control to hugetlb_file_setup
>   Split boundary checking from body of do_munmap
>   Build hugetlb backed process stacks
>   [PPC] Setup stack memory segment for hugetlb pages
> 
>  arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c |    6 +
>  arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c       |   11 ++
>  fs/exec.c                     |  209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c          |   52 +++++++----
>  include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h |    3 +
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h       |   22 ++++-
>  include/linux/mm.h            |    1 +
>  include/linux/personality.h   |    3 +
>  ipc/shm.c                     |    2 +-
>  mm/mmap.c                     |   11 ++-
>  10 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

That all looks surprisingly straightforward.

Might there exist an x86 port which people can play with?
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