linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: add max

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Date:	Tue, 22 May 2012 14:51:37 -0500
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	tglx@...utronix.de, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: add max_addr boot option

On 05/22/2012 02:02 AM, Wen Congyang wrote:
> If we only want to use node0, we can specify the max_addr. The boot
> option "mem=" can do the same thing now. But the boot option "mem="
> means the total memory used by the system. If we tell the user
> that the boot option "mem=" can do this, it will confuse the user.
> So we need an new boot option "max_addr" on x86 platform.

I didn't follow that reasoning at all.  Care to try again?

(mem= can do this, but telling users that would confuse them?  What?)

Rob
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