From e73a75fa7f062b52d015f1c961685dcaac57f710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:40:52 -0700 Subject: hugetlbfs: use lib/parser, fix docs Use lib/parser.c to parse hugetlbfs mount options. Correct docs in hugetlbpage.txt. old size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 675 bytes new size of hugetlbfs_fill_super: 686 bytes (hugetlbfs_parse_options() is inlined) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: David Gibson Cc: Adam Litke Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/vm') diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt index 687104bfd09..51ccc48aa76 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt @@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ If the user applications are going to request hugepages using mmap system call, then it is required that system administrator mount a file system of type hugetlbfs: - mount none /mnt/huge -t hugetlbfs - + mount -t hugetlbfs \ + -o uid=,gid=,mode=,size=,nr_inodes= \ + none /mnt/huge This command mounts a (pseudo) filesystem of type hugetlbfs on the directory /mnt/huge. Any files created on /mnt/huge uses hugepages. The uid and gid @@ -88,11 +89,10 @@ mode of root of file system to value & 0777. This value is given in octal. By default the value 0755 is picked. The size option sets the maximum value of memory (huge pages) allowed for that filesystem (/mnt/huge). The size is rounded down to HPAGE_SIZE. The option nr_inodes sets the maximum number of -inodes that /mnt/huge can use. If the size or nr_inodes options are not +inodes that /mnt/huge can use. If the size or nr_inodes option is not provided on command line then no limits are set. For size and nr_inodes options, you can use [G|g]/[M|m]/[K|k] to represent giga/mega/kilo. For -example, size=2K has the same meaning as size=2048. An example is given at -the end of this document. +example, size=2K has the same meaning as size=2048. read and write system calls are not supported on files that reside on hugetlb file systems. -- cgit v1.2.3