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@@ -302,15 +302,23 @@ file systems, write system calls are not.
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Regular chown, chgrp, and chmod commands (with right permissions) could be
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used to change the file attributes on hugetlbfs.
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-Also, it is important to note that no such mount command is required if the
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+Also, it is important to note that no such mount command is required if
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applications are going to use only shmat/shmget system calls or mmap with
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-MAP_HUGETLB. Users who wish to use hugetlb page via shared memory segment
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-should be a member of a supplementary group and system admin needs to
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-configure that gid into /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for
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-same or different applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm*
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-calls, though the mount of filesystem will be required for using mmap calls
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-without MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see
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-map_hugetlb.c.
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+MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see map_hugetlb
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+below.
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+Users who wish to use hugetlb memory via shared memory segment should be a
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+member of a supplementary group and system admin needs to configure that gid
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+into /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for same or different
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+applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm* calls, though the mount of
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+filesystem will be required for using mmap calls without MAP_HUGETLB.
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+Syscalls that operate on memory backed by hugetlb pages only have their lengths
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+aligned to the native page size of the processor; they will normally fail with
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+errno set to EINVAL or exclude hugetlb pages that extend beyond the length if
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+not hugepage aligned. For example, munmap(2) will fail if memory is backed by
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+a hugetlb page and the length is smaller than the hugepage size.
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Examples
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