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[$] Fixing a race in hugetlbfs
Friday May 20, 2022. 05:19 PM , from LWN.net
As the memory-management track at the 2022 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) neared its conclusion, Mike Kravetz ran a session remotely to talk about page sharing with hugetlbfs, which is a special filesystem that provides access to huge pages. (See this article series for lots of information about hugetlbfs). Hugetlbfs can help to reduce page-table overhead when pages are shared between large numbers of processes, but there is a problem that he is trying to find a solution for.
https://lwn.net/Articles/895540/
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