Re: [PATCH] docs: mm: Fix number of base pages for 1GB HugeTLB

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Wed Feb 08 2023 - 04:52:35 EST


On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 11:44:56AM +0000, Usama Arif wrote:
> 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
> index a4b12ff906c4..689a6907c70b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +
> .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>
> =========================================
> @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is supported by many
> architectures. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for more
> details. On the x86-64 architecture, HugeTLB pages of size 2MB and 1GB are
> currently supported. Since the base page size on x86 is 4KB, a 2MB HugeTLB page
> -consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 4096 base pages.
> +consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages.
> For each base page, there is a corresponding ``struct page``.
>
> Within the HugeTLB subsystem, only the first 4 ``struct page`` are used to
> --
> 2.25.1
>

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.