Bug 541998

Summary: /dev/hugepages should be created/mounted automatically
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Ralston <ralston>
Component: udevAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 12CC: berrange, clalance, crobinso, harald, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, sven, troels, veillard, virt-maint
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: udev-151-7.fc13 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 667750 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-03-25 22:35:51 UTC Type: ---
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patch to make /sbin/start_udev mkdir /dev/hugepages none

Description James Ralston 2009-11-27 21:32:31 UTC 
According to:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Huge_Page_Backed_Memory

...I should create /dev/hugepages and mounts hugetlbfs on it.  But this is a hack. There needs to be some automatic way to ensure that /dev/hugepages exists and is mounted; I shouldn't have to do it manually.

This is with libvirt-0.7.1-15.fc12.
Comment 1 James Ralston 2010-02-10 20:23:26 UTC 
Created attachment 390107 [details]
patch to make /sbin/start_udev mkdir /dev/hugepages

The attached patch makes /sbin/start_udev mkdir /dev/hugepages, the same way it creates other subdirectories in /dev that are mount targets.

With this patch, the following line in /etc/fstab will do the trick:

hugetlbfs       /dev/hugepages  hugetlbfs defaults      0 0
Comment 2 James Ralston 2010-02-10 20:25:39 UTC 
Reassigning to udev.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-03-19 11:15:12 UTC 
udev-145-16.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udev-145-16.fc12
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-03-23 10:26:34 UTC 
udev-151-7.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udev-151-7.fc13
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-03-23 23:32:55 UTC 
udev-151-7.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update udev'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udev-151-7.fc13
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-03-23 23:39:30 UTC 
udev-145-19.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update udev'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/udev-145-19.fc12
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-03-25 22:34:54 UTC 
udev-145-19.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-03-25 22:39:12 UTC 
udev-151-7.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Troels Arvin 2010-09-20 20:01:46 UTC 
Could this fix be introduced in RHEL 5's udev, as well, please?