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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-01 05:46:22 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-01 05:46:22 +0300
commit73da9e1a9f310a449eeb9bf5735a9cd475fef5e2 (patch)
tree82cd78255b0a480340a8427e7ba5586df8280ac4 /Documentation
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parent3f56a2f8030071cf86520ef4fc3045ba6856e610 (diff)
downloadlinux-73da9e1a9f310a449eeb9bf5735a9cd475fef5e2.tar.xz
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - misc fixes - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits) mm: remove PG_highmem description tools, vm: new option to specify kpageflags file mm/swap.c: make functions and their kernel-doc agree mm, memory_hotplug: fix memmap initialization mm: correct comments regarding do_fault_around() mm: numa: do not trap faults on shared data section pages. hugetlb, mbind: fall back to default policy if vma is NULL hugetlb, mempolicy: fix the mbind hugetlb migration mm, hugetlb: further simplify hugetlb allocation API mm, hugetlb: get rid of surplus page accounting tricks mm, hugetlb: do not rely on overcommit limit during migration mm, hugetlb: integrate giga hugetlb more naturally to the allocation path mm, hugetlb: unify core page allocation accounting and initialization mm/memcontrol.c: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes mm/memcontrol.c: make local symbol static mm/hmm: fix uninitialized use of 'entry' in hmm_vma_walk_pmd() include/linux/mmzone.h: fix explanation of lower bits in the SPARSEMEM mem_map pointer mm/compaction.c: fix comment for try_to_compact_pages() mm/page_ext.c: make page_ext_init a noop when CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION but nothing uses it zsmalloc: use U suffix for negative literals being shifted ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt27
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 5025ff9307e6..ff234d229cbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- dirty_writeback_centisecs
- drop_caches
- extfrag_threshold
-- hugepages_treat_as_movable
- hugetlb_shm_group
- laptop_mode
- legacy_va_layout
@@ -261,30 +260,6 @@ any throttling.
==============================================================
-hugepages_treat_as_movable
-
-This parameter controls whether we can allocate hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE
-or not. If set to non-zero, hugepages can be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE.
-ZONE_MOVABLE is created when kernel boot parameter kernelcore= is specified,
-so this parameter has no effect if used without kernelcore=.
-
-Hugepage migration is now available in some situations which depend on the
-architecture and/or the hugepage size. If a hugepage supports migration,
-allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE is always enabled for the hugepage regardless
-of the value of this parameter.
-IOW, this parameter affects only non-migratable hugepages.
-
-Assuming that hugepages are not migratable in your system, one usecase of
-this parameter is that users can make hugepage pool more extensible by
-enabling the allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE. This is because on ZONE_MOVABLE
-page reclaim/migration/compaction work more and you can get contiguous
-memory more likely. Note that using ZONE_MOVABLE for non-migratable
-hugepages can do harm to other features like memory hotremove (because
-memory hotremove expects that memory blocks on ZONE_MOVABLE are always
-removable,) so it's a trade-off responsible for the users.
-
-==============================================================
-
hugetlb_shm_group
hugetlb_shm_group contains group id that is allowed to create SysV
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index 59cbc803aad6..faf077d50d42 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -20,19 +20,20 @@ options.
The /proc/meminfo file provides information about the total number of
persistent hugetlb pages in the kernel's huge page pool. It also displays
-information about the number of free, reserved and surplus huge pages and the
-default huge page size. The huge page size is needed for generating the
-proper alignment and size of the arguments to system calls that map huge page
-regions.
+default huge page size and information about the number of free, reserved
+and surplus huge pages in the pool of huge pages of default size.
+The huge page size is needed for generating the proper alignment and
+size of the arguments to system calls that map huge page regions.
The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" will include lines like:
.....
-HugePages_Total: vvv
-HugePages_Free: www
-HugePages_Rsvd: xxx
-HugePages_Surp: yyy
-Hugepagesize: zzz kB
+HugePages_Total: uuu
+HugePages_Free: vvv
+HugePages_Rsvd: www
+HugePages_Surp: xxx
+Hugepagesize: yyy kB
+Hugetlb: zzz kB
where:
HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of huge pages.
@@ -47,6 +48,14 @@ HugePages_Surp is short for "surplus," and is the number of huge pages in
the pool above the value in /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages. The
maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by
/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages.
+Hugepagesize is the default hugepage size (in Kb).
+Hugetlb is the total amount of memory (in kB), consumed by huge
+ pages of all sizes.
+ If huge pages of different sizes are in use, this number
+ will exceed HugePages_Total * Hugepagesize. To get more
+ detailed information, please, refer to
+ /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages (described below).
+
/proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured
in the kernel.