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authorMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>2014-11-06 10:31:15 -0500
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2014-11-06 15:14:11 -0500
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treef29914ece580836cc47930db805c4f892fbdf75e /Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
parent747029a566e5d637ef4972afd2cb7202f7b7ca7c (diff)
Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information
This patch adds 1GB large page support information in Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/31/366 Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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2The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in 2The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in
3the Linux kernel. This support is built on top of multiple page size support 3the Linux kernel. This support is built on top of multiple page size support
4that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, i386 4that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, x86 CPUs normally
5architecture supports 4K and 4M (2M in PAE mode) page sizes, ia64 5support 4K and 2M (1G if architecturally supported) page sizes, ia64
6architecture supports multiple page sizes 4K, 8K, 64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M, 6architecture supports multiple page sizes 4K, 8K, 64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M,
7256M and ppc64 supports 4K and 16M. A TLB is a cache of virtual-to-physical 7256M and ppc64 supports 4K and 16M. A TLB is a cache of virtual-to-physical
8translations. Typically this is a very scarce resource on processor. 8translations. Typically this is a very scarce resource on processor.