Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Sun Aug 06 2006 - 13:30:54 EST


On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I was impressed by how fast 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 is under memory pressure,
> until I noticed that my "mem=512M" boot option was doing nothing. The
> two fixes below got it working, but I wonder how many other early_param
> "option=" args are wrong (e.g. "memmap=" in the same file): x86_64
> shows many such, i386 shows only one, I've not followed it up further.

Oh, and that's not enough for it to show up in x86_64's /proc/cmdline.

Hugh
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