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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index f82300b9193f..076443cc10a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ collapsed, resulting fewer pages being collapsed into THPs, and lower memory access performance. ``max_ptes_shared`` specifies how many pages can be shared across multiple -processes. Exceeding the number would block the collapse:: +processes. khugepaged might treat pages of THPs as shared if any page of +that THP is shared. Exceeding the number would block the collapse:: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_shared |