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 <standby24x7@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>