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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index bb90de3885d1..0166f9de3428 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -128,7 +128,9 @@ hugepages implicitly specifies the number of huge pages of default size to allocate. If the number of huge pages of default size is implicitly specified, it can not be overwritten by a hugepagesz,hugepages - parameter pair for the default size. + parameter pair for the default size. This parameter also has a + node format. The node format specifies the number of huge pages + to allocate on specific nodes. For example, on an architecture with 2M default huge page size:: @@ -138,6 +140,14 @@ hugepages indicating that the hugepages=512 parameter is ignored. If a hugepages parameter is preceded by an invalid hugepagesz parameter, it will be ignored. + + Node format example:: + + hugepagesz=2M hugepages=0:1,1:2 + + It will allocate 1 2M hugepage on node0 and 2 2M hugepages on node1. + If the node number is invalid, the parameter will be ignored. + default_hugepagesz Specify the default huge page size. This parameter can only be specified once on the command line. default_hugepagesz can |