Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Another dubious commit

2006-10-14 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 14.10.2006 [19:08:26 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:27:42PM -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:26 -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > > > > > Instead of creating the shared mapping of size memsz (aligned), we're > > > going to make it only filesz + non-zero BSS

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rework segment sharing code [Re: hugetlbd]

2006-10-14 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 14.10.2006 [12:45:49 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 05:14:00PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 13.10.2006 [12:47:25 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > On 13.10.2006 [12:02:44 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > > > > Nish, or someone else who understands the shari

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Another dubious commit

2006-10-14 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:27:42PM -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:26 -0500, Steve Fox wrote: > > > Instead of creating the shared mapping of size memsz (aligned), we're > > going to make it only filesz + non-zero BSS (we've found that glibc > > initializes stdin, stdout, stderr

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Don't compile 2 copies of hugetlbd

2006-10-14 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:07:28AM -0500, Adam Litke wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:27 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > At present we compile both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of hugetlbd, > > which is silly since we neither need nor can run more than one. This > > patch alters the Makefile to only

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Remove elflink specific functions out of hugeutils.c

2006-10-14 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:48:36PM -0500, Adam Litke wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:53 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > Oops, missed a couple of things. Please apply this rather than > > previous versions of this change. > > > > Remove elflink specific functions out of hugeutils.c > > > > This

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rework segment sharing code [Re: hugetlbd]

2006-10-14 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 05:14:00PM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 13.10.2006 [12:47:25 -0700], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > On 13.10.2006 [12:02:44 +1000], David Gibson wrote: > > > Nish, or someone else who understands the sharing implementation: > > > > > > Can you explain to me the ne