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authorBadari Pulavarty2007-10-16 10:26:22 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2007-10-16 18:43:03 +0200
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hugetlbfs read() support
Support for reading from hugetlbfs files. libhugetlbfs lets application text/data to be placed in large pages. When we do that, oprofile doesn't work - since libbfd tries to read from it. This code is very similar to what do_generic_mapping_read() does, but I can't use it since it has PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumptions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, fix leak] [bunk@stusta.de: make hugetlbfs_read() static] Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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