From a3437870160cf2caaac6bdd76c7377a5a4145a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:27:44 -0700 Subject: hugetlb: new sysfs interface Provide new hugepages user APIs that are more suited to multiple hstates in sysfs. There is a new directory, /sys/kernel/hugepages. Underneath that directory there will be a directory per-supported hugepage size, e.g.: /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64kB /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB corresponding to 64k, 16m and 16g respectively. Within each hugepages-size directory there are a number of files, corresponding to the tracked counters in the hstate, e.g.: /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_overcommit_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/free_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/resv_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/surplus_hugepages Of these files, the first two are read-write and the latter three are read-only. The size of the hugepage being manipulated is trivially deducible from the enclosing directory and is always expressed in kB (to match meminfo). [dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix build] [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel] [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: remove CONFIG_SYSFS dependency] Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages (limited to 'Documentation/ABI') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e21c00571cf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ +Date: June 2008 +Contact: Nishanth Aravamudan , hugetlb maintainers +Description: + /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ contains a number of subdirectories + of the form hugepages-kB, where is the page size + of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU combination. + + Under these directories are a number of files: + nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages + free_hugepages + surplus_hugepages + resv_hugepages + See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details. -- cgit v1.2.3