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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 5 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index 2ec6adb5a4ce..c4171e4519c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ or enable it back by writing 1: echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page +Some userspace (such as a test program, or an optimized memory allocation +library) may want to know the size (in bytes) of a transparent hugepage: + +cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size + khugepaged will be automatically started when transparent_hugepage/enabled is set to "always" or "madvise, and it'll be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never". |