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authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2008-03-24 15:29:43 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-03-24 22:22:19 -0400
commit1312848e92a0686cb5124aa86ea58d55ba795742 (patch)
tree67fdd9d93fb3540ef9b74c1c7a0e3ba3ae14b143 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
parentcc7feea39bed2951cc29af3ad642f39a99dfe8d3 (diff)
kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option better
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -1130,6 +1130,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
1130 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 1130 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1131 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 1131 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1132 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 1132 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
1133 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1134 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1135 or
1136 memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
1133 1137
1134 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters 1138 meye.*= [HW] Set MotionEye Camera parameters
1135 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt. 1139 See Documentation/video4linux/meye.txt.