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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 687104bfd09..51ccc48aa76 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ If the user applications are going to request hugepages using mmap system call, then it is required that system administrator mount a file system of type hugetlbfs: - mount none /mnt/huge -t hugetlbfs <uid=value> <gid=value> <mode=value> - <size=value> <nr_inodes=value> + mount -t hugetlbfs \ + -o uid=<value>,gid=<value>,mode=<value>,size=<value>,nr_inodes=<value> \ + none /mnt/huge This command mounts a (pseudo) filesystem of type hugetlbfs on the directory /mnt/huge. Any files created on /mnt/huge uses hugepages. The uid and gid @@ -88,11 +89,10 @@ mode of root of file system to value & 0777. This value is given in octal. By default the value 0755 is picked. The size option sets the maximum value of memory (huge pages) allowed for that filesystem (/mnt/huge). The size is rounded down to HPAGE_SIZE. The option nr_inodes sets the maximum number of -inodes that /mnt/huge can use. If the size or nr_inodes options are not +inodes that /mnt/huge can use. If the size or nr_inodes option is not provided on command line then no limits are set. For size and nr_inodes options, you can use [G|g]/[M|m]/[K|k] to represent giga/mega/kilo. For -example, size=2K has the same meaning as size=2048. An example is given at -the end of this document. +example, size=2K has the same meaning as size=2048. read and write system calls are not supported on files that reside on hugetlb file systems. |