linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3]HTLB mapping for drivers (take 2)

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Message-ID: <202cde0e0908232314j4b90aa61pb4bcd0223ffbc087@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:14:30 +1200
From:	Alexey Korolev <akorolex@...il.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	Eric Munson <linux-mm@...bm.net>,
	Alexey Korolev <akorolev@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3]HTLB mapping for drivers (take 2)

Mel,

> How about;
>
>        o Extend Eric's helper slightly to take a GFP mask that is
>          associated with the inode and used for allocations from
>          outside the hugepage pool
>        o A helper that returns the page at a given offset within
>          a hugetlbfs file for population before the page has been
>          faulted.
>
> I know this is a bit hand-wavy, but it would allow significant sharing
> of the existing code and remove much of the hugetlbfs-awareness from
> your current driver.
>

I'm trying to write the solution you have described. The question I
have is about extension of hugetlb_file_setup function.
Is it supposed to allocate memory in hugetlb_file_setup function? Or
it is supposed to have reservation only.
If reservation only, then it is necessary to keep a gfp_mask for a
file somewhere. Would it be Ok to keep a gfp_mask for a file in
file->private_data?

Thanks,
Alexey
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