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in that case, an out of memory\n error will be printed at program startup, the profiler will be\n disabled, and no @file{gmon.out} file will be generated.\n @end deftp\n+\n+@node ELF Tunables\n+@section ELF Tunables\n+@cindex elf tunables\n+\n+@deftp Tunable glibc.elf.thp\n+This tunable controls Transparent Huge Page (THP) aware alignment of\n+ELF loadable segments.\n+\n+The default value is @code{0}, which preserves the traditional page-sized\n+alignment for loadable segments.\n+\n+If set to @code{1}, glibc will attempt to align sufficiently large\n+@code{PT_LOAD} segments to the PMD huge page size when mapping them\n+with @code{mmap}. This increases the likelihood that the kernel can\n+back these mappings with Transparent Huge Pages.\n+\n+This tunable has an effect only on systems that support Transparent\n+Huge Pages (currently Linux). On other systems, or if THP is disabled\n+at the kernel level, enabling this tunable has no effect.\n+@end deftp\n","prefixes":["v8","4/6"]}