From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7FF6B004D for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:19:50 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: [PATCH] docs: Remove some very outdated recommendations in Documentation/memory.txt Message-Id: <20090731131950.bf339521.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Andi Kleen , akpm List-ID: Any comments on this patch from Andi? Thanks. --- From: Andi Kleen Remove some very outdated recommendations in Documentation/memory.txt Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap --- Documentation/memory.txt | 31 ++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.31-rc4-git6.orig/Documentation/memory.txt +++ linux-2.6.31-rc4-git6/Documentation/memory.txt @@ -1,18 +1,7 @@ There are several classic problems related to memory on Linux systems. - 1) There are some buggy motherboards which cannot properly - deal with the memory above 16MB. Consider exchanging - your motherboard. - - 2) You cannot do DMA on the ISA bus to addresses above - 16M. Most device drivers under Linux allow the use - of bounce buffers which work around this problem. Drivers - that don't use bounce buffers will be unstable with - more than 16M installed. Drivers that use bounce buffers - will be OK, but may have slightly higher overhead. - - 3) There are some motherboards that will not cache above + 1) There are some motherboards that will not cache above a certain quantity of memory. If you have one of these motherboards, your system will be SLOWER, not faster as you add more memory. Consider exchanging your @@ -24,7 +13,7 @@ It can also tell Linux to use less memor If you use "mem=" on a machine with PCI, consider using "memmap=" to avoid physical address space collisions. -See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, loadlin, etc.) about +See the documentation of your boot loader (LILO, grub, loadlin, etc.) about how to pass options to the kernel. There are other memory problems which Linux cannot deal with. Random @@ -42,19 +31,3 @@ Try: with the vendor. Consider testing it with memtest86 yourself. * Exchanging your CPU, cache, or motherboard for one that works. - - * Disabling the cache from the BIOS. - - * Try passing the "mem=4M" option to the kernel to limit - Linux to using a very small amount of memory. Use "memmap="-option - together with "mem=" on systems with PCI to avoid physical address - space collisions. - - -Other tricks: - - * Try passing the "no-387" option to the kernel to ignore - a buggy FPU. - - * Try passing the "no-hlt" option to disable the potentially - buggy HLT instruction in your CPU. --- ~Randy LPC 2009, Sept. 23-25, Portland, Oregon http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org