Re: [PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt

2014-11-19 Thread David Rientjes
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > The hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt states that > 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time and not > freed afterwards. This is not true since commit > 944d9fec8d7aee, at least for x86_64. > > Instead of adding arch-specifc observations t

Re: [PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Naoya Horiguchi
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 05:33:11PM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > The hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt states that > 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time and not > freed afterwards. This is not true since commit > 944d9fec8d7aee, at least for x86_64. > > Instead of adding arch-sp

[PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt

2014-11-12 Thread Luiz Capitulino
The hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt states that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time and not freed afterwards. This is not true since commit 944d9fec8d7aee, at least for x86_64. Instead of adding arch-specifc observations to the hugepages= entry, this commit just drops the out of