[PATCH 4/4] hugetlbfs: document reserved mount option

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 20:22:34 EST


Update documentation for the hugetlbfs reserved mount option.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
index f2d3a10..1d88bfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ call, then it is required that system administrator mount a file system of
type hugetlbfs:

mount -t hugetlbfs \
- -o uid=<value>,gid=<value>,mode=<value>,size=<value>,nr_inodes=<value> \
- none /mnt/huge
+ -o uid=<value>,gid=<value>,mode=<value>,size=<value>,reserved,\
+ nr_inodes=<value> none /mnt/huge

This command mounts a (pseudo) filesystem of type hugetlbfs on the directory
/mnt/huge. Any files created on /mnt/huge uses huge pages. The uid and gid
@@ -277,11 +277,15 @@ the uid and gid of the current process are taken. The mode option sets the
mode of root of file system to value & 01777. 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 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.
+rounded down to HPAGE_SIZE. If the size option is specified, the reserved
+option may also be specified to reserve the number of huge pages required for
+the maximum filesystem size. This number of huge pages is reserved at mount
+time and will be available for exclusive use by the filesystem. If not enough
+huge pages are available, the mount will fail. The option nr_inodes sets
+the maximum number of 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.

While read system calls are supported on files that reside on hugetlb
file systems, write system calls are not.
--
2.1.0

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