/* * hugepage-shm: * * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using Sys V shared * memory system calls. In this example the app is requesting 256MB of * memory that is backed by huge pages. The application uses the flag * SHM_HUGETLB in the shmget system call to inform the kernel that it is * requesting huge pages. * * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper * range. * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained. * * Note: The default shared memory limit is quite low on many kernels, * you may need to increase it via: * * echo 268435456 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax * * This will increase the maximum size per shared memory segment to 256MB. * The other limit that you will hit eventually is shmall which is the * total amount of shared memory in pages. To set it to 16GB on a system * with a 4kB pagesize do: * * echo 4194304 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall */ #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/ipc.h> #include <sys/shm.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #ifndef SHM_HUGETLB #define SHM_HUGETLB 04000 #endif #define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024) #define dprintf(x) printf(x) /* Only ia64 requires this */ #ifdef __ia64__ #define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL) #define SHMAT_FLAGS (SHM_RND) #else #define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) #define SHMAT_FLAGS (0) #endif int main(void) { int shmid; unsigned long i; char *shmaddr; if ((shmid = shmget(2, LENGTH, SHM_HUGETLB | IPC_CREAT | SHM_R | SHM_W)) < 0) { perror("shmget"); exit(1); } printf("shmid: 0x%x\n", shmid); shmaddr = shmat(shmid, ADDR, SHMAT_FLAGS); if (shmaddr == (char *)-1) { perror("Shared memory attach failure"); shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL); exit(2); } printf("shmaddr: %p\n", shmaddr); dprintf("Starting the writes:\n"); for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) { shmaddr[i] = (char)(i); if (!(i % (1024 * 1024))) dprintf("."); } dprintf("\n"); dprintf("Starting the Check..."); for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) if (shmaddr[i] != (char)i) printf("\nIndex %lu mismatched\n", i); dprintf("Done.\n"); if (shmdt((const void *)shmaddr) != 0) { perror("Detach failure"); shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL); exit(3); } shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL); return 0; }