From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Trivial patch monkey <trivial@kernel.org>
Subject: Document memmap option better
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:24:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080319142427.GA25627@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange an
non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad
memory.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 622f784..467034c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1128,6 +1128,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+ Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
+ memmap=64K$0x18690000
+ or
+ memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.
--
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
pomozte zachranit klanovicky les: http://www.ujezdskystrom.info/
reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080319142427.GA25627@elf.ucw.cz \
--to=pavel@ucw.cz \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=trivial@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®