Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751081AbWHFRcX (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:32:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751176AbWHFRcX (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:32:23 -0400 Received: from extu-mxob-1.symantec.com ([216.10.194.28]:63436 "EHLO extu-mxob-1.symantec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbWHFRcW (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:32:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:31:31 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@blonde.wat.veritas.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Aug 2006 17:32:13.0593 (UTC) FILETIME=[411AC890:01C6B97E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 15 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/