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| author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2015-06-19 22:07:07 +0800 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2015-06-19 22:07:07 +0800 |
| commit | c0b59fafe31bf91f589736be304d739b13952fdd (patch) | |
| tree | 0088a41c6b68132739294643be06734e3af67677 /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | 28bceeaaf81140d69647acd0eb7dc9312f27844a (diff) | |
| parent | bfa1ce5f38938cc9e6c7f2d1011f88eba2b9e2b2 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'mvebu/drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Merge the mvebu/drivers branch of the arm-soc tree which contains
just a single patch bfa1ce5f38938cc9e6c7f2d1011f88eba2b9e2b2 ("bus:
mvebu-mbus: add mv_mbus_dram_info_nooverlap()") that happens to be
a prerequisite of the new marvell/cesa crypto driver.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 11 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 6fbd55ef6b45..6bfbc172cdb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags: 13. SWAPCACHE page is mapped to swap space, ie. has an associated swap entry 14. SWAPBACKED page is backed by swap/RAM -The page-types tool in this directory can be used to query the above flags. +The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to query the +above flags. Using pagemap to do something useful: diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index 6b31cfbe2a9a..8143b9e8373d 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -159,6 +159,17 @@ for each pass: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/full_scans +max_ptes_none specifies how many extra small pages (that are +not already mapped) can be allocated when collapsing a group +of small pages into one large page. + +/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none + +A higher value leads to use additional memory for programs. +A lower value leads to gain less thp performance. Value of +max_ptes_none can waste cpu time very little, you can +ignore it. + == Boot parameter == You can change the sysfs boot time defaults of Transparent Hugepage |