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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@gmail.com>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: fix memmap= language in kernel-parameters.txt
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:35:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EAEFD8.6030003@infradead.org> (raw)

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

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>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- lnx-313.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ lnx-313/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1668,16 +1668,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 			option description.
 
 	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
-			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
-			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+			[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
+			Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.
 
 	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
 			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
-			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+			Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.
 
 	memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
 			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
-			Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+			Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
 			Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
 			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
 			         or

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-01-31  0:35 UTC|newest]

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2014-01-31  0:35 Randy Dunlap [this message]
2014-01-31  0:49 ` David Rientjes

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