Regular chown, chgrp, and chmod commands (with right permissions) could be
used to change the file attributes on hugetlbfs.
-Also, it is important to note that no such mount command is required if the
+Also, it is important to note that no such mount command is required if
applications are going to use only shmat/shmget system calls or mmap with
-MAP_HUGETLB. Users who wish to use hugetlb page via shared memory segment
-should be a member of a supplementary group and system admin needs to
-configure that gid into /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for
-same or different applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm*
-calls, though the mount of filesystem will be required for using mmap calls
-without MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see
-map_hugetlb.c.
+MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see map_hugetlb
+below.
+
+Users who wish to use hugetlb memory via shared memory segment should be a
+member of a supplementary group and system admin needs to configure that gid
+into /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for same or different
+applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm* calls, though the mount of
+filesystem will be required for using mmap calls without MAP_HUGETLB.
+
+When using munmap(2) to unmap hugetlb memory, the length specified must be
+hugepage aligned, otherwise it will fail with errno set to EINVAL.
+
Examples
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