1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 /* 3 * hugepage-shm: 4 * 5 * Example of using huge page memory in a user application using Sys V shared 6 * memory system calls. In this example the app is requesting 256MB of 7 * memory that is backed by huge pages. The application uses the flag 8 * SHM_HUGETLB in the shmget system call to inform the kernel that it is 9 * requesting huge pages. 10 * 11 * For the ia64 architecture, the Linux kernel reserves Region number 4 for 12 * huge pages. That means that if one requires a fixed address, a huge page 13 * aligned address starting with 0x800000... will be required. If a fixed 14 * address is not required, the kernel will select an address in the proper 15 * range. 16 * Other architectures, such as ppc64, i386 or x86_64 are not so constrained. 17 * 18 * Note: The default shared memory limit is quite low on many kernels, 19 * you may need to increase it via: 20 * 21 * echo 268435456 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 22 * 23 * This will increase the maximum size per shared memory segment to 256MB. 24 * The other limit that you will hit eventually is shmall which is the 25 * total amount of shared memory in pages. To set it to 16GB on a system 26 * with a 4kB pagesize do: 27 * 28 * echo 4194304 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall 29 */ 30 31 #include <stdlib.h> 32 #include <stdio.h> 33 #include <sys/types.h> 34 #include <sys/ipc.h> 35 #include <sys/shm.h> 36 #include <sys/mman.h> 37 38 #ifndef SHM_HUGETLB 39 #define SHM_HUGETLB 04000 40 #endif 41 42 #define LENGTH (256UL*1024*1024) 43 44 #define dprintf(x) printf(x) 45 46 /* Only ia64 requires this */ 47 #ifdef __ia64__ 48 #define ADDR (void *)(0x8000000000000000UL) 49 #define SHMAT_FLAGS (SHM_RND) 50 #else 51 #define ADDR (void *)(0x0UL) 52 #define SHMAT_FLAGS (0) 53 #endif 54 55 int main(void) 56 { 57 int shmid; 58 unsigned long i; 59 char *shmaddr; 60 61 shmid = shmget(2, LENGTH, SHM_HUGETLB | IPC_CREAT | SHM_R | SHM_W); 62 if (shmid < 0) { 63 perror("shmget"); 64 exit(1); 65 } 66 printf("shmid: 0x%x\n", shmid); 67 68 shmaddr = shmat(shmid, ADDR, SHMAT_FLAGS); 69 if (shmaddr == (char *)-1) { 70 perror("Shared memory attach failure"); 71 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL); 72 exit(2); 73 } 74 printf("shmaddr: %p\n", shmaddr); 75 76 dprintf("Starting the writes:\n"); 77 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) { 78 shmaddr[i] = (char)(i); 79 if (!(i % (1024 * 1024))) 80 dprintf("."); 81 } 82 dprintf("\n"); 83 84 dprintf("Starting the Check..."); 85 for (i = 0; i < LENGTH; i++) 86 if (shmaddr[i] != (char)i) { 87 printf("\nIndex %lu mismatched\n", i); 88 exit(3); 89 } 90 dprintf("Done.\n"); 91 92 if (shmdt((const void *)shmaddr) != 0) { 93 perror("Detach failure"); 94 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL); 95 exit(4); 96 } 97 98 shmctl(shmid, IPC_RMID, NULL); 99 100 return 0; 101 } 102