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+What: /sys/devices/system/memory
+Date: June 2008
+Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
+Description:
+ The /sys/devices/system/memory contains a snapshot of the
+ internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be
+ added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove
+ operations.
+
+Users: hotplug memory add/remove tools
+ https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable
+Date: June 2008
+Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
+Description:
+ The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable
+ indicates whether this memory block is removable or not.
+ This is useful for a user-level agent to determine
+ identify removable sections of the memory before attempting
+ potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation
+
+Users: hotplug memory remove tools
+ https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm
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+What: /sys/kernel/mm
+Date: July 2008
+Contact: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, VM maintainers
+Description:
+ /sys/kernel/mm/ should contain any and all VM
+ related information in /sys/kernel/.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages
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+What: /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/
+Date: June 2008
+Contact: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, hugetlb maintainers
+Description:
+ /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ contains a number of subdirectories
+ of the form hugepages-<size>kB, where <size> is the page size
+ of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU combination.
+
+ Under these directories are a number of files:
+ nr_hugepages
+ nr_overcommit_hugepages
+ free_hugepages
+ surplus_hugepages
+ resv_hugepages
+ See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.