Commit 27ec26ec authored by Luiz Capitulino's avatar Luiz Capitulino Committed by Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt

The hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt states that 1GB pages can
only be allocated at boot time and not freed afterwards.  This is not
true since commit 944d9fec ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page
allocation at runtime"), at least for x86_64.

Instead of adding arch-specifc observations to the hugepages= entry,
this commit just drops the out of date information.  Further information
about arch-specific support and available features can be obtained in
the hugetlb documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6f185c29
......@@ -1228,9 +1228,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
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.
(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
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