From 94bf5ceac095c7d4cb5e4d40fa7e2dd81d722b75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric B Munson Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:03:48 -0700 Subject: hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB example Add an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to the vm documentation directory and a reference to the example in hugetlbpage.txt. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Adam Litke Cc: David Gibson Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c (limited to 'Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c') diff --git a/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e2bdae37f499 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/map_hugetlb.c @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +/* + * Example of using hugepage memory in a user application using the mmap + * system call with MAP_HUGETLB flag. Before running this program make + * sure the administrator has allocated enough default sized huge pages + * to cover the 256 MB allocation. + * + * For ia64 architecture, Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for hugepages. + * That means the addresses starting with 0x800000... will need to be + * specified. Specifying a fixed address is not required on ppc64, i386 + * or x86_64. + */ +#include +#include +#include +#include +#include + +#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024) +#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE) + +#ifndef MAP_HUGETLB +#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40 +#endif + +/* Only ia64 requires this */ +#ifdef __ia64__ +#define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL) +#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_FIXED) +#else +#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) +#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB) +#endif + +void check_bytes(char *addr) +{ + printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr)); +} + +void write_bytes(char *addr) +{ + unsigned long i; + + for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) + *(addr + i) = (char)i; +} + +void read_bytes(char *addr) +{ + unsigned long i; + + check_bytes(addr); + for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) + if (*(addr + i) != (char)i) { + printf("Mismatch at %lu\n", i); + break; + } +} + +int main(void) +{ + void *addr; + + addr = mmap(ADDR, LENGTH, PROTECTION, FLAGS, 0, 0); + if (addr == MAP_FAILED) { + perror("mmap"); + exit(1); + } + + printf("Returned address is %p\n", addr); + check_bytes(addr); + write_bytes(addr); + read_bytes(addr); + + munmap(addr, LENGTH); + + return 0; +} -- cgit v1.2.2