[PATCH] Doc: vm/hugetlbpage update-2

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>
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Randy Dunlap 2006-04-18 22:21:51 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -32,7 +32,16 @@ The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" will have lines like:
..... .....
HugePages_Total: xxx HugePages_Total: xxx
HugePages_Free: yyy 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 /proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured
in the kernel. in the kernel.