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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-23 22:11:50 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-23 22:11:50 -0500
commit3aacd625f20129f5a41ea3ff3b5353b0e4dabd01 (patch)
tree7cf4ea65397f80098b30494df31cfc8f5fa26d63 /Documentation/blockdev
parent7e21774db5cc9cf8fe93a64a2f0c6cf47db8ab24 (diff)
parent2a1d689c9ba42a6066540fb221b6ecbd6298b728 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - the rest of MM - add generic fixmap.h, use it - backlight updates - dynamic_debug updates - printk() updates - checkpatch updates - binfmt_elf - ramfs - init/ - autofs4 - drivers/rtc - nilfs - hfsplus - Documentation/ - coredump - procfs - fork - exec - kexec - kdump - partitions - rapidio - rbtree - userns - memstick - w1 - decompressors * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits) lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase() fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once ...
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@@ -36,21 +36,30 @@ allowing one to squeeze more programs onto an average installation or
36rescue floppy disk. 36rescue floppy disk.
37 37
38 38
392) Kernel Command Line Parameters 392) Parameters
40--------------------------------- 40---------------------------------
41 41
422a) Kernel Command Line Parameters
43
42 ramdisk_size=N 44 ramdisk_size=N
43 ============== 45 ==============
44 46
45This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The 47This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The
46default is 4096 (4 MB) (8192 (8 MB) on S390). 48default is 4096 (4 MB).
49
502b) Module parameters
47 51
48 ramdisk_blocksize=N 52 rd_nr
49 =================== 53 =====
54 /dev/ramX devices created.
50 55
51This parameter tells the RAM disk driver how many bytes to use per block. The 56 max_part
52default is 1024 (BLOCK_SIZE). 57 ========
58 Maximum partition number.
53 59
60 rd_size
61 =======
62 See ramdisk_size.
54 63
553) Using "rdev -r" 643) Using "rdev -r"
56------------------ 65------------------