linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] docs/kernel-parameters: update description of mem=

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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:27:36 +0200
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
        Mike Rapport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@....ru>,
        Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] docs/kernel-parameters: update description of mem=

From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>

The existing description of mem= does not cover all the cases and
differences between how architectures treat it.

Extend the description to match the code.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
---
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220309172258.1183796-1-rppt@kernel.org
* move Hexagon description to make it better visible

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220309122446.1118738-1-rppt@kernel.org
* drop clumsy and redundant paragraph about Hexagon
 .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt          | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index f5a27f067db9..5b84cca62990 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2827,6 +2827,9 @@
 
 			For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
 
+	mem=nn[KMG]	[HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
+			Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
+
 	mem=nn[KMG]	[KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
 			Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
 
@@ -2834,6 +2837,13 @@
 			2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
 			3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
 			 the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
+			4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
+
+			[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
+			high memory is not affected.
+
+			[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
+			mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
 
 			[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
 			with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
@@ -2844,6 +2854,14 @@
 			in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
 			if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
 
+	mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
+			[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
+			firmware.
+			Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
+			ss[KMG].
+			Multiple different regions can be specified with
+			multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
+
 	mem=nopentium	[BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
 			memory.
 
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