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author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2008-07-23 21:27:51 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-24 10:47:19 -0700 |
commit | b4718e628dbf68a2dee23b5709e2aa3190409c56 (patch) | |
tree | e685b2bd36a0fe731b128d2814996a693561d288 /Documentation | |
parent | 39c11e6c05b7fedbf7ed4df3908b25f622d56204 (diff) | |
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x86: add hugepagesz option on 64-bit
Add an hugepagesz=... option similar to IA64, PPC etc. to x86-64.
This finally allows to select GB pages for hugetlbfs in x86 now that all
the infrastructure is in place.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 5e20ccb..d55fd88 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -774,8 +774,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hisax= [HW,ISDN] See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. - hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. - hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC] The size of the HugeTLB pages. + 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 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) + Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time + using hugepages= and not freed afterwards. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from |