Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/3] Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: update CMA entries | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 2020 20:26:04 -0700 |
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Add qualifying build option legend [CMA] to kernel boot options that requirce CMA support to be enabled for them to be usable.
Also capitalize 'CMA' when it is used as an acronym.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- linux-next-20200909.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ linux-next-20200909/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ some critical bits. cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] - [ARM,X86,KNL] + [ARM,X86,KNL,CMA] Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous memory allocations and optionally the placement constraint by the physical address range of @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ include/linux/dma-contiguous.h cma_pernuma=nn[MG] - [ARM64,KNL] + [ARM64,KNL,CMA] Sets the size of kernel per-numa memory area for contiguous memory allocations. A value of 0 disables per-numa CMA altogether. And If this option is not @@ -1524,12 +1524,12 @@ hpet_mmap= [X86, HPET_MMAP] Allow userspace to mmap HPET registers. Default set by CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT. - hugetlb_cma= [HW] The size of a cma area used for allocation + hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA] The size of a CMA area used for allocation of gigantic hugepages. Format: nn[KMGTPE] - Reserve a cma area of given size and allocate gigantic - hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the + Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic + hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped. hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
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