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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-15 11:25:14 +1300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-15 13:28:02 +1300
commitd5268de125d7b12925c30b7ed386fbdeed04cc73 (patch)
tree68be0c469ecf3668252932eaef49538bea6d02d0
parent9982c065da48d557ef6e69362492f36990704627 (diff)
downloadman-pages-d5268de125d7b12925c30b7ed386fbdeed04cc73.tar.gz
proc.5: Document additional /proc/meminfo fields
Document DirectMap4k, DirectMap4M, DirectMap2M, DirectMap1G See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106281 Reported-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 045e4643f1..5a767cb2c3 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -2890,6 +2890,33 @@ The maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by
.IR Hugepagesize " %lu"
(\fBCONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE\fP is required.)
The size of huge pages.
+.TP
+.IR DirectMap4k " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)"
+Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4kB pages.
+(x86.)
+.TP
+.IR DirectMap4M " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)"
+Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4MB pages.
+(x86 with
+.BR CONFIG_X86_64
+or
+.BR CONFIG_X86_PAE
+enabled.)
+.TP
+.IR DirectMap2M " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)"
+Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 2MB pages.
+(x86 with neither
+.BR CONFIG_X86_64
+nor
+.BR CONFIG_X86_PAE
+enabled.)
+.TP
+.IR DirectMap1G " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)"
+(x86 with
+.BR CONFIG_X86_64
+and
+.B CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES
+enabled.)
.RE
.TP
.I /proc/modules