From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f177.google.com (mail-ig0-f177.google.com [209.85.213.177]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449FE6B0037 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 19:35:41 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ig0-f177.google.com with SMTP id k19so8362648igc.4 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:35:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org. [2001:4978:20e::2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z11si37810530igj.8.2014.01.30.16.35.39 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:35:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <52EAEFD8.6030003@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:35:36 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: fix memmap= language in kernel-parameters.txt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: LKML , Linux MM Cc: Andrew Morton , David Rientjes , Andiry Xu , Rob Landley From: Randy Dunlap Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options. Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or "marked". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andiry Xu Cc: David Rientjes --- 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 -- 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