Group for hugepages / libhugetlbfs
[re-sending, with proper debian-devel address, sorry for the noise]
Hello,
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 01:20 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> This ITP was stalled, so I packaged this tool...
>
> * Package name : libhugetlbfs
> Description : Tools and Library access huge pages of memory
>
> ::hugepages::
> Description: A set of tools to configure huge pages of memory
> This package contains a number of utilities that will help administrate
> the use of huge pages on your system. hugeedit modifies binaries to
> set default segment remapping behavior. hugectl sets environment
> variables for using huge pages and then execs the target program.
> hugeadm gives easy access to huge page pool size control. pagesize
> lists page sizes available on the machine.
I would like some advices on how to handle group for granting permission
to use HugePage/HugeTlbFs. I wonder If I should request a fixed GID...
That group can be used in the following places:
1. Sysctl's vm.hugetlb_shm_group = GIDNUMBER
2. hugetlbfs mount-points permissions
3. /etc/security/limits.conf's memlock
For #2 and #3, it is possible to use the group name. But unfortunately,
sysctl only accept GID number.
Is this reason sufficient to request a fixed GID? Alternatively, we
could use an init script to do the conversion. I don't like that option
very much, because I think it would be better to let /etc/sysctl handle
it.
What do you think about it?
Franklin
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Hugepages
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