From 0d9ea75443dc7e37843e656b8ebc947a6d16d618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Tollefson Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:27:56 -0700 Subject: powerpc: support multiple hugepage sizes Instead of using the variable mmu_huge_psize to keep track of the huge page size we use an array of MMU_PAGE_* values. For each supported huge page size we need to know the hugepte_shift value and have a pgtable_cache. The hstate or an mmu_huge_psizes index is passed to functions so that they know which huge page size they should use. The hugepage sizes 16M and 64K are setup(if available on the hardware) so that they don't have to be set on the boot cmd line in order to use them. The number of 16G pages have to be specified at boot-time though (e.g. hugepagesz=16G hugepages=5). Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 30278e9e521..01a2992b575 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -776,11 +776,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. - On x86 this option can be specified multiple times - interleaved with hugepages= to reserve huge pages - of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on x86-64 - are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G (when the - CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag) + On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified + multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve + huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on + x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G + (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag) Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time using hugepages= and not freed afterwards. default_hugepagesz= -- cgit v1.2.3