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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update mem= option's spec according to its imple...
authorWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:18:15 +0000 (14:18 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 5 Dec 2012 05:23:24 +0000 (16:23 +1100)
Current mem= implementation seems buggy because the specification and
implementation don't match.  The 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>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index 607b2364dd24193483d00aee5292568987220fbc..d1d690cf841e5190921b860e7d3187378cca26c2 100644 (file)
@@ -1503,9 +1503,10 @@ 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] 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.