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@@ -774,8 +774,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
hisax= [HW,ISDN]
See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
- hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages.
- hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
+ hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ On x86 this option can be specified multiple times
+ interleaved with hugepages= to reserve huge pages
+ of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on x86-64
+ are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G (when the
+ CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
+ Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
+ using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
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