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What:		/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/
Date:		June 2008
Contact:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, hugetlb maintainers
Description:
		/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ contains a number of subdirectories
		of the form hugepages-<size>kB, where <size> is the page size
		of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU combination.

		Under these directories are a number of files:
			nr_hugepages
			nr_overcommit_hugepages
			free_hugepages
			surplus_hugepages
			resv_hugepages
		See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.