Manual of sys_kernel_mm(5)

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/sys/kernel/mm/ - information about memory management

/sys/kernel/mm/

This subdirectory contains various files and subdirectories that provide information about the kernel's memory management subsystem.

/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages
This subdirectory contains one subdirectory for each of the huge page sizes that the system supports. The subdirectory name indicates the huge page size (e.g., hugepages-2048kB). Within each of these subdirectories is a set of files that can be used to view and (in some cases) change settings associated with that huge page size. For further information, see the kernel source file Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.

Linux.

Linux 2.6.0.

sys_kernel(5)

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