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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst index c573e08b5043..59891f72420e 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ + .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 ========================================= @@ -10,14 +11,14 @@ HugeTLB This section is to explain how HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) works. The ``struct page`` structures are used to describe a physical page frame. By -default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to it's corresponding +default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to its corresponding ``struct page``. HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is supported by many architectures. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for more details. On the x86-64 architecture, HugeTLB pages of size 2MB and 1GB are currently supported. Since the base page size on x86 is 4KB, a 2MB HugeTLB page -consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 4096 base pages. +consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages. For each base page, there is a corresponding ``struct page``. Within the HugeTLB subsystem, only the first 4 ``struct page`` are used to |