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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 27 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 5025ff9307e6..ff234d229cbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - dirty_writeback_centisecs - drop_caches - extfrag_threshold -- hugepages_treat_as_movable - hugetlb_shm_group - laptop_mode - legacy_va_layout @@ -261,30 +260,6 @@ any throttling. ============================================================== -hugepages_treat_as_movable - -This parameter controls whether we can allocate hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE -or not. If set to non-zero, hugepages can be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. -ZONE_MOVABLE is created when kernel boot parameter kernelcore= is specified, -so this parameter has no effect if used without kernelcore=. - -Hugepage migration is now available in some situations which depend on the -architecture and/or the hugepage size. If a hugepage supports migration, -allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE is always enabled for the hugepage regardless -of the value of this parameter. -IOW, this parameter affects only non-migratable hugepages. - -Assuming that hugepages are not migratable in your system, one usecase of -this parameter is that users can make hugepage pool more extensible by -enabling the allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE. This is because on ZONE_MOVABLE -page reclaim/migration/compaction work more and you can get contiguous -memory more likely. Note that using ZONE_MOVABLE for non-migratable -hugepages can do harm to other features like memory hotremove (because -memory hotremove expects that memory blocks on ZONE_MOVABLE are always -removable,) so it's a trade-off responsible for the users. - -============================================================== - hugetlb_shm_group hugetlb_shm_group contains group id that is allowed to create SysV diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 59cbc803aad6..faf077d50d42 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -20,19 +20,20 @@ options. The /proc/meminfo file provides information about the total number of persistent hugetlb pages in the kernel's huge page pool. It also displays -information about the number of free, reserved and surplus huge pages and the -default huge page size. The huge page size is needed for generating the -proper alignment and size of the arguments to system calls that map huge page -regions. +default huge page size and information about the number of free, reserved +and surplus huge pages in the pool of huge pages of default size. +The huge page size is needed for generating the proper alignment and +size of the arguments to system calls that map huge page regions. The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" will include lines like: ..... -HugePages_Total: vvv -HugePages_Free: www -HugePages_Rsvd: xxx -HugePages_Surp: yyy -Hugepagesize: zzz kB +HugePages_Total: uuu +HugePages_Free: vvv +HugePages_Rsvd: www +HugePages_Surp: xxx +Hugepagesize: yyy kB +Hugetlb: zzz kB where: HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of huge pages. @@ -47,6 +48,14 @@ HugePages_Surp is short for "surplus," and is the number of huge pages in the pool above the value in /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages. The maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages. +Hugepagesize is the default hugepage size (in Kb). +Hugetlb is the total amount of memory (in kB), consumed by huge + pages of all sizes. + If huge pages of different sizes are in use, this number + will exceed HugePages_Total * Hugepagesize. To get more + detailed information, please, refer to + /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages (described below). + /proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured in the kernel. |