From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220309172258.1183796-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx * move Hexagon description to make it better visible v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220309122446.1118738-1-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx * 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. -- 2.34.1
