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Subject[RESEND PATCH v2 1/2] update mem= option's spec
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From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>

Current mem= implementation seems buggy because specification and
implementation doesn't match. Current mem= has been working
for many years and it's not buggy, it works as expected. So
we should update the specification.

Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Sort-of-tentatively-acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++---
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index a92c5eb..924b1a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1471,9 +1471,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
Amount of memory to be used when the kernel is not able
to see the whole system memory or for test.
- [X86-32] Use together with memmap= to avoid physical
- address space collisions. Without memmap= PCI devices
- could be placed at addresses belonging to unused RAM.
+ [X86-32] Work as limiting max address. Use together
+ with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
+ Without memmap= PCI devices could be placed at addresses
+ belonging to unused RAM.

mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
memory.
--
1.7.1


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