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+What: /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/
+Date: June 2008
+Contact: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>, hugetlb maintainers
+Description:
+ /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ contains a number of subdirectories
+ of the form hugepages-<size>kB, where <size> is the page size
+ of the hugepages supported by the kernel/CPU combination.
+
+ Under these directories are a number of files:
+ nr_hugepages
+ nr_overcommit_hugepages
+ free_hugepages
+ surplus_hugepages
+ resv_hugepages
+ See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.