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authorRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>2014-02-06 15:04:19 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-02-06 16:48:51 -0500
commit277cba1d28b99169f2a056d0d6f98a4039531cb8 (patch)
tree02be0ed53d0b67a0fc30c02c2408f2a7554917f2 /Documentation
parentef42c58a5b4b8060a3931aab36bf2b4f81b44afc (diff)
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix memmap= language
Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options. Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or "marked". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -1726,16 +1726,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
1726 option description. 1726 option description.
1727 1727
1728 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] 1728 memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
1729 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory 1729 [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
1730 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 1730 Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
1731 1731
1732 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] 1732 memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
1733 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. 1733 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
1734 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 1734 Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
1735 1735
1736 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] 1736 memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
1737 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. 1737 [KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
1738 Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. 1738 Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
1739 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff 1739 Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
1740 memmap=64K$0x18690000 1740 memmap=64K$0x18690000
1741 or 1741 or