Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' boot option description
authorBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Sat, 13 May 2017 05:46:30 +0000 (13:46 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 May 2017 07:50:27 +0000 (09:50 +0200)
commit8fcc9bc3eaa2ef8345e2b4b22e3a88804ac46337
tree2935216aa8579fdaf259d138bffece0a93a13a58
parent4cdba14f84c9102c4434384731cd61018b970d59
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' boot option description

In commit:

  9710f581bb4c ("x86, mm: Let "memmap=" take more entries one time")

... 'memmap=' was changed to adopt multiple, comma delimited values in a
single entry, so update the related description.

In the special case of only specifying size value without an offset,
like memmap=nn[KMG], memmap behaves similarly to mem=nn[KMG], so update
it too here.

Furthermore, for memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG], an escape character needs be added
before '$' for some bootloaders. E.g in grub2, if we specify memmap=100M$5G
as suggested by the documentation, "memmap=100MG" gets passed to the kernel.

Clarify all this.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dyoung@redhat.com
Cc: m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494654390-23861-4-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com
[ Various spelling fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt