From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:31:31 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608061829430.20012@blonde.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608061811030.19637@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Hugh Dickins 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.
Oh, and that's not enough for it to show up in x86_64's /proc/cmdline.
Hugh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-06 17:32 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 [this message]
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
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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