Documentation: update hugetlb information

The hugetlb documentation has gotten a bit out of sync with the current code.
Updated the sysctl file to refer to Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.  Update
that file to contain the current state of affairs (with the newer named sysctl
in place).

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-12-17 16:20:25 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 368d2c6358
commit d5dbac87b4
2 changed files with 48 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- oom_kill_allocating_task
- mmap_min_address
- numa_zonelist_order
- nr_hugepages
- nr_overcommit_hugepages
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@ -305,3 +307,20 @@ will select "node" order in following case.
Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless
this is causing problems for your system/application.
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nr_hugepages
Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
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nr_overcommit_hugepages
Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is
nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt