From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, andi@firstfloor.org, riel@redhat.com,
isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, yinghai@kernel.org,
davidlohr@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:39:14 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1411191439030.24691@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415831593-9020-2-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com>
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> The hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt states that
> 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time and not
> freed afterwards. This is not true since commit
> 944d9fec8d7aee, at least for x86_64.
>
> Instead of adding arch-specifc observations to the
> hugepages= entry, this commit just drops the out of date
> information. Further information about arch-specific
> support and available features can be obtained in the
> hugetlb documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-19 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-12 22:33 [PATCH 0/3] hugetlb: misc small fixes/improvements Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-12 22:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-17 0:11 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-11-19 22:39 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2014-11-12 22:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] hugetlb: alloc_bootmem_huge_page(): use IS_ALIGNED() Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-17 0:11 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-11-19 22:42 ` David Rientjes
2014-11-12 22:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] hugetlb: hugetlb_register_all_nodes(): add __init marker Luiz Capitulino
2014-11-17 0:12 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2014-11-19 22:43 ` David Rientjes
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