Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ memory that is preset in system at this time. System administrators may want
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to put this command in one of the local rc init files. This will enable the
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kernel to request huge pages early in the boot process (when the possibility
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of getting physical contiguous pages is still very high). In either
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case, adminstrators will want to verify the number of hugepages actually
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case, administrators will want to verify the number of hugepages actually
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allocated by checking the sysctl or meminfo.
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/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages indicates how large the pool of
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@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ most general to most specific:
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the policy at the time they were allocated.
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VMA Policy: A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's
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virtual adddress space. A task may define a specific policy for a range
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virtual address space. A task may define a specific policy for a range
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of its virtual address space. See the MEMORY POLICIES APIS section,
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below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA
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policy.
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Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup
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shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are
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more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is expecially
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more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is especially
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true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running
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on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always
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falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions,
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