From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765065AbYCSVOv (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:14:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761942AbYCST7n (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:59:43 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:36153 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761900AbYCST7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:59:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:24:27 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Morton , kernel list , Trivial patch monkey Subject: Document memmap option better Message-ID: <20080319142427.GA25627@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek 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/