Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751645AbWHFTPm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:15:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750989AbWHFTPm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:15:42 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:15262 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751564AbWHFTPl (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:15:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 12:15:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Hugh Dickins Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix Message-Id: <20060806121530.eac1dd37.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 18 On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:22:04 +0100 (BST) 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. Thanks again. Andi, it sounds like so many fixes will be needed there that it's worth dropping, pending rev #2. - 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/