From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:15:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060806121530.eac1dd37.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608061811030.19637@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:22:04 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> I was impressed by how fast 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 is under memory pressure,
> until I noticed that my "mem=512M" boot option was doing nothing. The
> two fixes below got it working, but I wonder how many other early_param
> "option=" args are wrong (e.g. "memmap=" in the same file): x86_64
> shows many such, i386 shows only one, I've not followed it up further.
Thanks again.
Andi, it sounds like so many fixes will be needed there that it's worth
dropping, pending rev #2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-06 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-06 17:22 Hugh Dickins
2006-08-06 17:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-08-07 15:08 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-08-07 21:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-09 0:10 ` Keith Mannthey
2006-08-09 1:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-09 1:27 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-06 19:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-07 2:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 2:54 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07 2:55 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-07 3:08 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-07 3:13 ` Andi Kleen
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