[PATCH] Doc: vm/hugetlbpage update-2
authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:21:51 +0000 (22:21 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:13:52 +0000 (09:13 -0700)
Add new line of /proc/meminfo output.

Explain the HugePage_ lines in /proc/meminfo (from Bill Irwin).

Change KB to kB since the latter is what is used in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt

index 2803f63c1a27622a3e3f3680d6c2a6398c993c7e..687104bfd09a79eef794b8dbe1357c33864d028c 100644 (file)
@@ -32,7 +32,16 @@ The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" will have lines like:
 .....
 HugePages_Total: xxx
 HugePages_Free:  yyy
-Hugepagesize:    zzz KB
+HugePages_Rsvd:  www
+Hugepagesize:    zzz kB
+
+where:
+HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of hugepages.
+HugePages_Free is the number of hugepages in the pool that are not yet
+allocated.
+HugePages_Rsvd is short for "reserved," and is the number of hugepages
+for which a commitment to allocate from the pool has been made, but no
+allocation has yet been made. It's vaguely analogous to overcommit.
 
 /proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured
 in the kernel.