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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index a76d83ed5262..0b4b9e1e35b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -834,12 +834,15 @@ See also Documentation/networking/decnet.rst. default_hugepagesz= - [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default - HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by - the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and - default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems. - Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size - if not specified. + [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is + the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages + APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size + used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs + filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the + architecture's default huge page size. Huge page + sizes are architecture dependent. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: size[KMG] deferred_probe_timeout= [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for @@ -1484,13 +1487,24 @@ hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. - 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 x86-64 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). + hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. + If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies + the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated. + If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command + line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for + the default huge page size. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: <integer> + + hugepagesz= + [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in + conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge + pages of a specific size at boot. The pair + hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for + each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are + architecture dependent. See also + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. + Format: size[KMG] hung_task_panic= [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. |