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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-23 22:11:50 -0500 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-23 22:11:50 -0500 |
| commit | 3aacd625f20129f5a41ea3ff3b5353b0e4dabd01 (patch) | |
| tree | 7cf4ea65397f80098b30494df31cfc8f5fa26d63 /Documentation/blockdev | |
| parent | 7e21774db5cc9cf8fe93a64a2f0c6cf47db8ab24 (diff) | |
| parent | 2a1d689c9ba42a6066540fb221b6ecbd6298b728 (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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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/blockdev')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt index fa72e97dd669..fe2ef978d85a 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt | |||
| @@ -36,21 +36,30 @@ allowing one to squeeze more programs onto an average installation or | |||
| 36 | rescue floppy disk. | 36 | rescue floppy disk. |
| 37 | 37 | ||
| 38 | 38 | ||
| 39 | 2) Kernel Command Line Parameters | 39 | 2) Parameters |
| 40 | --------------------------------- | 40 | --------------------------------- |
| 41 | 41 | ||
| 42 | 2a) Kernel Command Line Parameters | ||
| 43 | |||
| 42 | ramdisk_size=N | 44 | ramdisk_size=N |
| 43 | ============== | 45 | ============== |
| 44 | 46 | ||
| 45 | This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The | 47 | This parameter tells the RAM disk driver to set up RAM disks of N k size. The |
| 46 | default is 4096 (4 MB) (8192 (8 MB) on S390). | 48 | default is 4096 (4 MB). |
| 49 | |||
| 50 | 2b) Module parameters | ||
| 47 | 51 | ||
| 48 | ramdisk_blocksize=N | 52 | rd_nr |
| 49 | =================== | 53 | ===== |
| 54 | /dev/ramX devices created. | ||
| 50 | 55 | ||
| 51 | This parameter tells the RAM disk driver how many bytes to use per block. The | 56 | max_part |
| 52 | default is 1024 (BLOCK_SIZE). | 57 | ======== |
| 58 | Maximum partition number. | ||
| 53 | 59 | ||
| 60 | rd_size | ||
| 61 | ======= | ||
| 62 | See ramdisk_size. | ||
| 54 | 63 | ||
| 55 | 3) Using "rdev -r" | 64 | 3) Using "rdev -r" |
| 56 | ------------------ | 65 | ------------------ |
