/*
* Example of using hugepage memory in a user application using the mmap
* system call with MAP_HUGETLB flag. Before running this program make
* sure the administrator has allocated enough default sized huge pages
* to cover the 256 MB allocation.
*
* For ia64 architecture, Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for hugepages.
* That means the addresses starting with 0x800000... will need to be
* specified. Specifying a fixed address is not required on ppc64, i386
* or x86_64.
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024)
#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE)
#ifndef MAP_HUGETLB
#define MAP_HUGETLB 0x40000 /* arch specific */
#endif
/* Only ia64 requires this */
#ifdef __ia64__
#define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL)
#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_FIXED)
#else
#define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL)
#define FLAGS (MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB)
static void check_bytes(char *addr)
{
printf("First hex is %x\n", *((unsigned int *)addr));
}
static void write_bytes(char *addr)
unsigned long i;
for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++)
*(addr + i) = (char)i;
static void read_bytes(char *addr)
check_bytes(addr);
if (*(addr + i) != (char)i) {
printf("Mismatch at %lu\n", i);
break;
int main(void)
void *addr;
addr = mmap(ADDR, LENGTH, PROTECTION, FLAGS, 0, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap");
exit(1);
printf("Returned address is %p\n", addr);
write_bytes(addr);
read_bytes(addr);
munmap(addr, LENGTH);
return 0;