diff options
| author |   Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2007-07-17 04:03:14 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -0700 |
| commit | ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e (patch) | |
| tree | 6c22daf6908f92c64aae2b425e6383fe0ed404ac /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e.tar.xz linux-dev-ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e.zip | |
handle kernelcore=: generic
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86.
Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new
sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation.
From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64
because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled
in an architecture-independent manner.
This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is
only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing
(i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will
ignore the boot parameter.
[bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 460b892d089e..ebffdffb3d99 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1348,6 +1348,21 @@ nr_hugepages configures number of hugetlb page reserved for the system. hugetlb_shm_group contains group id that is allowed to create SysV shared memory segment using hugetlb page. +hugepages_treat_as_movable +-------------------------- + +This parameter is only useful when kernelcore= is specified at boot time to +create ZONE_MOVABLE for pages that may be reclaimed or migrated. Huge pages +are not movable so are not normally allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. A non-zero +value written to hugepages_treat_as_movable allows huge pages to be allocated +from ZONE_MOVABLE. + +Once enabled, the ZONE_MOVABLE is treated as an area of memory the huge +pages pool can easily grow or shrink within. Assuming that applications are +not running that mlock() a lot of memory, it is likely the huge pages pool +can grow to the size of ZONE_MOVABLE by repeatedly entering the desired value +into nr_hugepages and triggering page reclaim. + laptop_mode ----------- |