From 27ec26ecdca956a32e89a22a148f1c16b5c0becf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:55:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt
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 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page
allocation at runtime"), 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this commit just drops the out of date information.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>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
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 eacb2e0397ae3..24539d1c7d250 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
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