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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.
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a3437870 NA	1	What: /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/
	2	Date: June 2008
	3	Contact: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, hugetlb maintainers
	4	Description:
	5	/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ contains a number of subdirectories
	6	of the form hugepages-<size>kB, where <size> is the page size
	7	of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU combination.
	8
	9	Under these directories are a number of files:
	10	nr_hugepages
	11	nr_overcommit_hugepages
	12	free_hugepages
	13	surplus_hugepages
	14	resv_hugepages
	15	See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.