From: Randy Dunlap Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 20:04:19 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix memmap= language X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=277cba1d28b99169f2a056d0d6f98a4039531cb8;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix memmap= language Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options. Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or "marked". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Andiry Xu Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 8f441dab0396..7116fda7077f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1726,16 +1726,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. 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