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 Instead of adding arch-specifc observations to the hugepages= entry, this commit just drops the out of date information.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@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 479f332..d919af0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1228,9 +1228,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G - (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag) - Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time - using hugepages= and not freed afterwards. + (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag). hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC) terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8 -- 1.9.3 -- 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>