Re: syscall documentation

[Jeff Garzik]

[e-mail] wrote:
> The note with the above title last week was very successful -
> several people sent man pages. The copyright situation for
> the *xattr pages is not entirely clear yet, but there is
> good hope that it will be soon.
> 
> Let me send five new pages to l-k - maybe someone has
> additions, corrections or comments.
> 
> The first one is alloc_hugepages.2. Below.
> Probably more can be said about hugetlbfs.
> 
> Andries
> [e-mail]
> 
> ---------
> NAME
>        alloc_hugepages,  free_hugepages  -  allocate or free huge
>        pages
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        void *alloc_hugepages(int key, void *addr, size_t len, int
>        prot, int flag);
> 
>        int free_hugepages (void *addr);

The other man pages look great.  The above system calls, however, do not 
exist anymore.

This also brings to light that Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt and 
arch/i386/Kconfig want updating, as well as non-ia32 arches...

	Jeff