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| author | Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> | 2014-02-06 12:04:19 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -0800 |
| commit | 277cba1d28b99169f2a056d0d6f98a4039531cb8 (patch) | |
| tree | 02be0ed53d0b67a0fc30c02c2408f2a7554917f2 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | ef42c58a5b4b8060a3931aab36bf2b4f81b44afc (diff) | |
| download | lwn-277cba1d28b99169f2a056d0d6f98a4039531cb8.tar.gz lwn-277cba1d28b99169f2a056d0d6f98a4039531cb8.zip | |
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix memmap= language
Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options.
Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or
"marked".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8f441dab0396..7116fda7077f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1726,16 +1726,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. option description. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] - [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory - Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. + Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. - Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn. memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. - Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. + Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn. Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff memmap=64K$0x18690000 or |