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Re: A question about transparent hugepages

From "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: A question about transparent hugepages
Date 2016-08-04 11:20 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 12:02:29PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> according to the total_mapcount,  Different process can map any subpages of the
> transparent hugepages.   How it can happen to ? 

For anonymous memory it can only happen over copy-on-write via fork() +
munmap() or something in one of the processes.

Now we have tmpfs/shmem with huge pages in mainline. In this case you can
map any subpage directly from file.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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A question about transparent hugepages zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> - 2016-08-04 06:10 +0200
  Re: A question about transparent hugepages "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-08-04 11:20 +0200

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