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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-11 16:08:54 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-11 16:08:54 -0700 |
commit | c2d95729e3094ecdd8c54e856bbe971adbbd7f48 (patch) | |
tree | 76cc5b551227d3d55d68a93105c1fe8080dfb812 /Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | |
parent | bbda1baeeb2f4aff3addac3d086a1e56c3f2503e (diff) | |
parent | b34081f1cd59585451efaa69e1dff1b9507e6c89 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- Some pidns/fork/exec tweaks
- OCFS2 updates
- Most of MM - there remain quite a few memcg parts which depend on
pending core cgroups changes. Which might have been already merged -
I'll check tomorrow...
- Various misc stuff all over the place
- A few block bits which I never got around to sending to Jens -
relatively minor things.
- MAINTAINERS maintenance
- A small number of lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- epoll
- firmware/dmi-scan
- Some kprobes work for S390
- drivers/rtc updates
- hfsplus feature work
- vmcore feature work
- rbtree upgrades
- AOE updates
- pktcdvd cleanups
- PPS
- memstick
- w1
- New "inittmpfs" feature, which does the obvious
- More IPC work from Davidlohr.
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (303 commits)
lz4: fix compression/decompression signedness mismatch
ipc: drop ipc_lock_check
ipc, shm: drop shm_lock_check
ipc: drop ipc_lock_by_ptr
ipc, shm: guard against non-existant vma in shmdt(2)
ipc: document general ipc locking scheme
ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock
ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex
ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat
ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta
ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmctl
ipc,shm: make shmctl_nolock lockless
ipc,shm: introduce shmctl_nolock
ipc: drop ipcctl_pre_down
ipc,shm: shorten critical region in shmctl_down
ipc,shm: introduce lockless functions to obtain the ipc object
initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified
initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled
initmpfs: move rootfs code from fs/ramfs/ to init/
initmpfs: move bdi setup from init_rootfs to init_ramfs
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 4ac359b..bdd4bb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ which function as described above for the default huge page-sized case. Interaction of Task Memory Policy with Huge Page Allocation/Freeing +=================================================================== Whether huge pages are allocated and freed via the /proc interface or the /sysfs interface using the nr_hugepages_mempolicy attribute, the NUMA @@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows: of huge pages over all on-lines nodes with memory. Per Node Hugepages Attributes +============================= A subset of the contents of the root huge page control directory in sysfs, described above, will be replicated under each the system device of each @@ -258,6 +260,7 @@ applied, from which node the huge page allocation will be attempted. Using Huge Pages +================ If the user applications are going to request huge pages using mmap system call, then it is required that system administrator mount a file system of @@ -296,20 +299,16 @@ calls, though the mount of filesystem will be required for using mmap calls without MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see map_hugetlb.c. -******************************************************************* +Examples +======== -/* - * map_hugetlb: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c - */ +1) map_hugetlb: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c -******************************************************************* +2) hugepage-shm: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-shm.c -/* - * hugepage-shm: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-shm.c - */ +3) hugepage-mmap: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-mmap.c -******************************************************************* - -/* - * hugepage-mmap: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-mmap.c - */ +4) The libhugetlbfs (http://libhugetlbfs.sourceforge.net) library provides a + wide range of userspace tools to help with huge page usability, environment + setup, and control. Furthermore it provides useful test cases that should be + used when modifying code to ensure no regressions are introduced. |