From ed7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:03:14 -0700 Subject: 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 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 Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index df3ff2095f9..a0ccc5b6026 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: dirty_ratio, dirty_background_ratio, dirty_expire_centisecs, dirty_writeback_centisecs, vfs_cache_pressure, laptop_mode, -block_dump, swap_token_timeout, drop-caches: +block_dump, swap_token_timeout, drop-caches, +hugepages_treat_as_movable: See Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt -- cgit v1.2.3