early_param memmap is only implemented on X86, MIPS and XTENSA. To avoid wasting users’ time on trying this on platform like ARM, mark it clearly. Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- * the background was that I spent one hour on using memmap on arm64, only to find memmap= is not implemented on most architectures; Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index 6d421694d98e..06fb1b4aa849 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ parameter is applicable:: X86 Either 32-bit or 64-bit x86 (same as X86-32+X86-64) X86_UV SGI UV support is enabled. XEN Xen support is enabled + XTENSA xtensa architecture is enabled. In addition, the following text indicates that the option:: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 526d65d8573a..8bdbc555f221 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2709,7 +2709,7 @@ option description. memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] - [KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory. + [KNL, X86, MIPS, XTENSA] Force usage of a specific region of memory. Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn. If @ss[KMG] is omitted, it is equivalent to mem=nn[KMG], which limits max address to nn[KMG]. -- 2.25.1