From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com (mail-pa0-f45.google.com [209.85.220.45]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EA66B009E for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2014 10:31:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-pa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id lf10so1463794pab.4 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 07:31:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-pd0-x232.google.com (mail-pd0-x232.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400e:c02::232]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kd7si6291881pbc.0.2014.11.06.07.31.37 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 06 Nov 2014 07:31:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-pd0-f178.google.com with SMTP id fp1so1343203pdb.9 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 07:31:37 -0800 (PST) From: Masanari Iida Subject: [PATCH/v2] Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 00:31:15 +0900 Message-Id: <1415287875-18820-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <545AADCC.5030102@intel.com> References: <545AADCC.5030102@intel.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-mm@kvack.org, dave.hansen@intel.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, andi@firstfloor.org Cc: Masanari Iida This patch adds 1GB large page support information in Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/31/366 Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida --- Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index b64e0af..f2d3a10 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel. This support is built on top of multiple page size support -that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, i386 -architecture supports 4K and 4M (2M in PAE mode) page sizes, ia64 +that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, x86 CPUs normally +support 4K and 2M (1G if architecturally supported) page sizes, ia64 architecture supports multiple page sizes 4K, 8K, 64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M, 256M and ppc64 supports 4K and 16M. A TLB is a cache of virtual-to-physical translations. Typically this is a very scarce resource on processor. -- 2.2.0.rc0.2.gf745acb -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org