[PATCH] Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information

From: Masanari Iida
Date: Fri Oct 31 2014 - 12:02:31 EST


This patch add 1GB large page support information on
x86_64 architecture in Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index bdd4bb9..0a2bf4f 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in
the Linux kernel. This support is built on top of multiple page size support
that is provided by most modern architectures. For example, i386
-architecture supports 4K and 4M (2M in PAE mode) page sizes, ia64
+architecture supports 4K and 4M (2M in PAE mode) page sizes, x86_64
+architecture supports 4K, 2M and 1G (SandyBridge or later) page sizes. ia64
architecture supports multiple page sizes 4K, 8K, 64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M,
256M and ppc64 supports 4K and 16M. A TLB is a cache of virtual-to-physical
translations. Typically this is a very scarce resource on processor.
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