On 10/30/06, toka <atrockz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi everyone, i am a kernel newbie, i wanted to know something about hugetlbfs. - is huge pages only accessible to root user ? - if so, when a process tries to accesses a huge page, how does kernel checks if its an authorized User ID (or root user id) ?
Well dude, try looking into the sources, where the changes are made for tugetlbfs. I think that might help you to get some information about it.
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