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authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>2007-07-17 04:03:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 10:22:59 -0700
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handle kernelcore=: generic
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86. Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation. From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64 because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled in an architecture-independent manner. This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will ignore the boot parameter. [bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick
See Documentation/input/joystick.txt.
+ kernelcore=nn[KMG] [KNL,IA-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
+ specifies the amount of memory usable by the kernel
+ for non-movable allocations. The requested amount is
+ spread evenly throughout all nodes in the system. The
+ remaining memory in each node is used for Movable
+ pages. In the event, a node is too small to have both
+ kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will
+ take priority and other nodes will have a larger number
+ of kernelcore pages. The Movable zone is used for the
+ allocation of pages that may be reclaimed or moved
+ by the page migration subsystem. This means that
+ HugeTLB pages may not be allocated from this zone.
+ Note that allocations like PTEs-from-HighMem still
+ use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
+ zone if it does not.
+
keepinitrd [HW,ARM]
kstack=N [IA-32,X86-64] Print N words from the kernel stack
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