From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: [PATCH] Config.help entry for CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE From: Steven Cole Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 11 Sep 2002 08:48:51 -0600 Message-Id: <1031755731.1990.262.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Seth, Rohit" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Here is a stab in the dark at a help entry for CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE, which is added by the lpp.patch (ia32 huge tlb pages) in 2.5.34-mm1. Please correct as needed. Steven --- linux-2.5.34-mm1/arch/i386/Config.help.orig Wed Sep 11 07:54:49 2002 +++ linux-2.5.34-mm1/arch/i386/Config.help Wed Sep 11 07:58:18 2002 @@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ If you don't know what to do here, say N. +CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE + This enables support for huge pages (4MB for x86). User space + applications can make use of this support with the sys_alloc_hugepages + and sys_free_hugepages system calls. If your applications are + huge page aware and your processor (Pentium or later for x86) supports + this, then say Y here. + + Otherwise, say N. + CONFIG_PREEMPT This option reduces the latency of the kernel when reacting to real-time or interactive events by allowing a low priority process to "One hot tip: if you spot a bug which is being ignored, send a completely botched fix to the mailing list. This causes thousands of kernel developers to rally to the cause. Nobody knows why this happens. (I really have deliberately done this several times. It works)." akpm in kerneltrap interview -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/