linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] hugetlbfs: document reserved mount option

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Message-Id: <1425432106-17214-5-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue,  3 Mar 2015 17:21:46 -0800
From:	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlbfs: document reserved mount option

Update documentation for the hugetlbfs reserved mount option.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
---
 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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