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System z kernel features – z10 support
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Large page support - with large page emulation on older
hardware (kernel 2.6.25)
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This adds hugetlbfs support on System z, using both hardware large page
support if available (IBM System z10), and software large page emulation (with
shared hugetlbfs pagetables) on older hardware.
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Exploitation of the IBM System z10 hardware large page support is only
available when running Linux on System z in an LPAR.
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STSI change for capacity provisioning (kernel 2.6.25)
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Make the permanent and temporary capacity information as provided by the
STSI instruction of the IBM System z10 available to user space via
/proc/sysinfo.
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Using this support when running Linux on System z on IBM System z10
as a VM guest requires z/VM 5.3
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5.2
10.2
5.2
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