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| author | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-06-10 13:47:26 -0500 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2006-06-10 13:47:26 -0500 |
| 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 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 2803f63c1a2..687104bfd09 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: ..... HugePages_Total: xxx HugePages_Free: yyy -Hugepagesize: zzz KB +HugePages_Rsvd: www +Hugepagesize: zzz kB + +where: +HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of hugepages. +HugePages_Free is the number of hugepages in the pool that are not yet +allocated. +HugePages_Rsvd is short for "reserved," and is the number of hugepages +for which a commitment to allocate from the pool has been made, but no +allocation has yet been made. It's vaguely analogous to overcommit. /proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured in the kernel. |