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linux/Documentation/vm
Nishanth Aravamudan 423bec4307 Documentation: correct overcommit caveat in hugetlbpage.txt
As shown by Gurudas Pai recently, we can put hugepages into the surplus
state (by echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages), even when
/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages is 0. This is actually correct, to
allow the original goal (shrink the static pool to 0) to succeed (we are
converting hugepages to surplus because they are in use). However, the
documentation does not accurately reflect this case. Update it.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
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00-INDEX doc: move vm/00-INDEX to Documentation/vm 2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
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hugetlbpage.txt Documentation: correct overcommit caveat in hugetlbpage.txt 2008-04-15 19:35:41 -07:00
locking
numa
numa_memory_policy.txt Mem Policy: add MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED get_mempolicy() flag 2007-10-16 09:42:54 -07:00
overcommit-accounting
page_migration
slabinfo.c slabinfo: fall back from /sys/kernel/slab to /sys/slab 2008-02-21 15:27:06 -08:00
slub.txt slub: fix typo in Documentation/vm/slub.txt 2008-03-06 16:21:50 -08:00