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| author | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-06-10 14:47:26 -0400 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-06-10 14:47:26 -0400 |
| commit | f0cd91a68acdc9b49d7f6738b514a426da627649 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ad73564015794197583b094217ae0a71e71e753 /Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | |
| parent | 60eef25701d25e99c991dd0f4a9f3832a0c3ad3e (diff) | |
| parent | 128e6ced247cda88f96fa9f2e4ba8b2c4a681560 (diff) | |
Merge ../linux-2.6
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 2803f63c1a27..687104bfd09a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | |||
| @@ -32,7 +32,16 @@ The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" will have lines like: | |||
| 32 | ..... | 32 | ..... |
| 33 | HugePages_Total: xxx | 33 | HugePages_Total: xxx |
| 34 | HugePages_Free: yyy | 34 | HugePages_Free: yyy |
| 35 | Hugepagesize: zzz KB | 35 | HugePages_Rsvd: www |
| 36 | Hugepagesize: zzz kB | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | where: | ||
| 39 | HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of hugepages. | ||
| 40 | HugePages_Free is the number of hugepages in the pool that are not yet | ||
| 41 | allocated. | ||
| 42 | HugePages_Rsvd is short for "reserved," and is the number of hugepages | ||
| 43 | for which a commitment to allocate from the pool has been made, but no | ||
| 44 | allocation has yet been made. It's vaguely analogous to overcommit. | ||
| 36 | 45 | ||
| 37 | /proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured | 46 | /proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured |
| 38 | in the kernel. | 47 | in the kernel. |