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| author |   Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> | 2014-11-07 00:31:15 +0900 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2014-11-06 15:14:11 -0500 |
| commit | c0d7305cb3e5e77dba822706e21898314e893fb7 (patch) | |
| tree | f29914ece580836cc47930db805c4f892fbdf75e /Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | |
| parent | ipv4: add kernel parameter tcpmhash_entries (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c0d7305cb3e5e77dba822706e21898314e893fb7.tar.xz linux-dev-c0d7305cb3e5e77dba822706e21898314e893fb7.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index b64e0af9cc56..f2d3a100fe38 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel. This support is built on top of multiple page size support -that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, i386 -architecture supports 4K and 4M (2M in PAE mode) page sizes, ia64 +that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, x86 CPUs normally +support 4K and 2M (1G if architecturally supported) page sizes, ia64 architecture supports multiple page sizes 4K, 8K, 64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M, 256M and ppc64 supports 4K and 16M. A TLB is a cache of virtual-to-physical translations. Typically this is a very scarce resource on processor. |