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docs: mm: Fix number of base pages for 1GB HugeTLB
1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages.
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207114456.2304801-1-usama.arif@bytedance.com
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architectures. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for more
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details. On the x86-64 architecture, HugeTLB pages of size 2MB and 1GB are
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currently supported. Since the base page size on x86 is 4KB, a 2MB HugeTLB page
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consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 4096 base pages.
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consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages.
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For each base page, there is a corresponding ``struct page``.
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Within the HugeTLB subsystem, only the first 4 ``struct page`` are used to