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hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
- On x86 this option can be specified multiple times
- interleaved with hugepages= to reserve huge pages
- of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on x86-64
- are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G (when the
- CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
+ On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
+ multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
+ huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
+ x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
+ (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
default_hugepagesz=
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