linux-kernel - [PATCH] Documentation: fix memmap= language in kernel-parameters.txt

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Message-ID: <52EAEFD8.6030003@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:35:36 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@...il.com>, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: fix memmap= language in kernel-parameters.txt

From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.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@...radead.org>
Cc: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@...il.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.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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