gethugepagesize(3)

gethugepagesize3

Get the default huge page size

Usage

#include <hugetlbfs.h>

long gethugepagesize(void)

Overview

The gethugepagesize() function returns the default huge page size used by libhugetlbfs. This will be either the system default, or a valid value set by the environment variable HUGETLB_DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE.

If the system does not support any huge page sizes an error is returned.

Return value

On success, the default huge page size is returned. On failure, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.

Errors

ENOSYS

The system does not support huge pages.

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster).

  1. 10–13

Authors

libhugetlbfs was written by various people on the libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list.

From libhugetlbfs-dev 2.24-1+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.