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| author | Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> | 2007-07-17 04:03:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -0700 |
| commit | ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e (patch) | |
| tree | 6c22daf6908f92c64aae2b425e6383fe0ed404ac /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 396faf0303d273219db5d7eb4a2879ad977ed185 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e.tar.gz lwn-ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e.zip | |
handle kernelcore=: generic
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86.
Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new
sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation.
From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64
because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled
in an architecture-independent manner.
This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is
only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing
(i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will
ignore the boot parameter.
[bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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 | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8363ad3ba018..1794affbd06f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -817,6 +817,22 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick See Documentation/input/joystick.txt. + kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,IA-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter + specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel + for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is + spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The + remaining memory in each node is used for Movable + pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both + kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will + take priority and other nodes will have a larger number + of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the + allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved + by the page migration subsystem. This means that + HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone. + Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still + use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal + zone if it does not. + keepinitrd [HW,ARM] kstack=N [IA-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack |