linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early

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Date:	Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:31:31 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix

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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