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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2010-03-10 18:21:58 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 18:52:35 -0500
commit70bace8c1edefa700c7f7af522c5374ef63860ae (patch)
treea0d19cd6a2200890affef250bf4381d893e1a161 /Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
parent1e0051ae48a253685e4309256f9c1ec2bdb74b5d (diff)
Documentation/vm/: split txt and source files
Documentation/vm/: Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/ directory in their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files. This should help to prevent bitrot. This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and to anyone who would fix/update them if they were more visible. Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if they should be removed. Also build the recently-added map_hugetlb.c. Make several functions static to prevent linker warnings. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -299,176 +299,11 @@ map_hugetlb.c.
299******************************************************************* 299*******************************************************************
300 300
301/* 301/*
302 * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using Sys V shared 302 * hugepage-shm: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-shm.c
303 * memory system calls. In this example the app is requesting 256MB of
304 * memory that is backed by huge pages. The application uses the flag
305 * SHM_HUGETLB in the shmget system call to inform the kernel that it is
306 * requesting huge pages.
307 *
308 * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for
309 * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page
310 * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed
311 * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper
312 * range.
313 * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained.
314 *
315 * Note: The default shared memory limit is quite low on many kernels,
316 * you may need to increase it via:
317 *
318 * echo 268435456 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
319 *
320 * This will increase the maximum size per shared memory segment to 256MB.
321 * The other limit that you will hit eventually is shmall which is the
322 * total amount of shared memory in pages. To set it to 16GB on a system
323 * with a 4kB pagesize do:
324 *
325 * echo 4194304 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
326 */ 303 */
327#include <stdlib.h>
328#include <stdio.h>
329#include <sys/types.h>
330#include <sys/ipc.h>
331#include <sys/shm.h>
332#include <sys/mman.h>
333
334#ifndef SHM_HUGETLB
335#define SHM_HUGETLB 04000
336#endif
337
338#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
339
340#define dprintf(x) printf(x)
341
342#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) /* let kernel choose address */
343#define SHMAT_FLAGS (0)
344
345int main(void)
346{
347 int shmid;
348 unsigned long i;
349 char *shmaddr;
350
351 if ((shmid = shmget(2, LENGTH,
352 SHM_HUGETLB | IPC_CREAT | SHM_R | SHM_W)) < 0) {
353 perror("shmget");
354 exit(1);
355 }
356 printf("shmid: 0x%x\n", shmid);
357
358 shmaddr = shmat(shmid, ADDR, SHMAT_FLAGS);
359 if (shmaddr == (char *)-1) {
360 perror("Shared memory attach failure");
361 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
362 exit(2);
363 }
364 printf("shmaddr: %p\n", shmaddr);
365
366 dprintf("Starting the writes:\n");
367 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) {
368 shmaddr[i] = (char)(i);
369 if (!(i % (1024 * 1024)))
370 dprintf(".");
371 }
372 dprintf("\n");
373
374 dprintf("Starting the Check...");
375 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
376 if (shmaddr[i] != (char)i)
377 printf("\nIndex %lu mismatched\n", i);
378 dprintf("Done.\n");
379
380 if (shmdt((const void *)shmaddr) != 0) {
381 perror("Detach failure");
382 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
383 exit(3);
384 }
385
386 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL);
387
388 return 0;
389}
390 304
391******************************************************************* 305*******************************************************************
392 306
393/* 307/*
394 * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using the mmap 308 * hugepage-mmap: see Documentation/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
395 * system call. Before running this application, make sure that the
396 * administrator has mounted the hugetlbfs filesystem (on some directory
397 * like /mnt) using the command mount -t hugetlbfs nodev /mnt. In this
398 * example, the app is requesting memory of size 256MB that is backed by
399 * huge pages.
400 *
401 * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for
402 * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page
403 * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed
404 * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper
405 * range.
406 * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained.
407 */ 309 */
408#include <stdlib.h>
409#include <stdio.h>
410#include <unistd.h>
411#include <sys/mman.h>
412#include <fcntl.h>
413
414#define FILE_NAME "/mnt/hugepagefile"
415#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
416#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE)
417
418#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) /* let kernel choose address */
419#define FLAGS (MAP_SHARED)
420
421void check_bytes(char *addr)
422{
423 printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr));
424}
425
426void write_bytes(char *addr)
427{
428 unsigned long i;
429
430 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
431 *(addr + i) = (char)i;
432}
433
434void read_bytes(char *addr)
435{
436 unsigned long i;
437
438 check_bytes(addr);
439 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
440 if (*(addr + i) != (char)i) {
441 printf("Mismatch at %lu\n", i);
442 break;
443 }
444}
445
446int main(void)
447{
448 void *addr;
449 int fd;
450
451 fd = open(FILE_NAME, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0755);
452 if (fd < 0) {
453 perror("Open failed");
454 exit(1);
455 }
456
457 addr = mmap(ADDR, LENGTH, PROTECTION, FLAGS, fd, 0);
458 if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
459 perror("mmap");
460 unlink(FILE_NAME);
461 exit(1);
462 }
463
464 printf("Returned address is %p\n", addr);
465 check_bytes(addr);
466 write_bytes(addr);
467 read_bytes(addr);
468
469 munmap(addr, LENGTH);
470 close(fd);
471 unlink(FILE_NAME);
472
473 return 0;
474}