From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com (mail-wm0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B2082FD8 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 05:58:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id l126so235701380wml.1 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:58:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from vena.lwn.net (tex.lwn.net. [70.33.254.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id et14si89694131wjc.67.2015.12.27.02.58.18 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:58:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 03:58:10 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters: update KMG units Message-ID: <20151227035810.0c408e2d@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1450917496-4023-1-git-send-email-elliott@hpe.com> References: <1450917496-4023-1-git-send-email-elliott@hpe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Robert Elliott Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net, matt@codeblueprint.co.uk, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:38:16 -0600 Robert Elliott wrote: > Since commit e004f3c7780d ("lib/cmdline.c: add size unit t/p/e to > memparse") expanded memparse() to support T, P, and E units in addition > to K, M, and G, all the kernel parameters that use that function became > capable of more than [KMG] mentioned in kernel-parameters.txt. > > Expand the introduction to the units and change all existing [KMG] > descriptions to [KMGTPE]. cma only had [MG]; reservelow only had [K]. > > Add [KMGTPE] for hugepagesz and memory_corruption_check_size, which also > use memparse(). > > Update two source code files with comments mentioning [KMG]. This one, too, goes outside of the docs tree, but it seems obvious enough and I'll take the liberty of applying it. Hopefully Andrew and company won't get too upset if I touch page_alloc.c... Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org