[LTP] [PATCH v6 2/4] Hugetlb: Migrating libhugetlbfs brk_near_huge

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Thu Nov 3 11:01:51 CET 2022


Hi!
> +/*\
> + *
> + * [Description]
> + *
> + * brk near hugepage:
           ^
	   and this bit is still here

If you have asciidoc installed you can run make in the top level LTP
directory which will generate docparse/metadata.html where you can check
how the documentation is rendered.

> + * Certain kernels have a bug where brk() does not perform the same
> + * checks that a MAP_FIXED mmap() will, allowing brk() to create a
> + * normal page VMA in a hugepage only address region. This can lead
> + * to oopses or other badness.
> + */

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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