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Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information

This patch adds 1GB large page support information in
Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt

Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/31/366

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Masanari Iida 10 anos atrás
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 The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in
 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
 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
+that is provided by most modern architectures.  For example, x86 CPUs normally
+support 4K and 2M (1G if architecturally supported) page sizes, ia64
 architecture supports multiple page sizes 4K, 8K, 64K, 256K, 1M, 4M, 16M,
 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
 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.
 translations.  Typically this is a very scarce resource on processor.