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authorNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>2007-12-17 19:20:25 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-17 22:28:17 -0500
commitd5dbac87b4343d98ae509fb787efb77f8ddc484b (patch)
tree5a3cd992275cd754724b7450ec34cea6fa241f6e /Documentation/sysctl
parent368d2c6358c3c62b3820a8a73f9fe9c8b540cdea (diff)
Documentation: update hugetlb information
The hugetlb documentation has gotten a bit out of sync with the current code. Updated the sysctl file to refer to Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. Update that file to contain the current state of affairs (with the newer named sysctl in place). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index b89570c30434..6f31f0a247d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
34- oom_kill_allocating_task 34- oom_kill_allocating_task
35- mmap_min_address 35- mmap_min_address
36- numa_zonelist_order 36- numa_zonelist_order
37- nr_hugepages
38- nr_overcommit_hugepages
37 39
38============================================================== 40==============================================================
39 41
@@ -305,3 +307,20 @@ will select "node" order in following case.
305 307
306Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless 308Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless
307this is causing problems for your system/application. 309this is causing problems for your system/application.
310
311==============================================================
312
313nr_hugepages
314
315Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool.
316
317See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
318
319==============================================================
320
321nr_overcommit_hugepages
322
323Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is
324nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages.
325
326See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt