sys_kernel_mm(5)

sys_kernel_mm5

Information about memory management

Usage

/sys/kernel/mm/

Overview

This subdirectory contains various files and subdirectories that provide information about the kernel's memory management subsystem.

/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages

This subdirectory contains one subdirectory for each of the huge page sizes that the system supports. The subdirectory name indicates the huge page size (e.g., hugepages-2048kB). Within each of these subdirectories is a set of files that can be used to view and (in some cases) change settings associated with that huge page size. For further information, see the kernel source file Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.

Standards

Linux.

History

Linux 2.6.0.

From man-pages 6.20-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-07. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.