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From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: mingo@kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dyoung@redhat.com,
	douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/3] Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' option description
Date: Tue,  9 May 2017 13:57:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494309472-5691-4-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1494309472-5691-1-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com>

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>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index e4c9e0e..8d37f26 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2112,6 +2112,12 @@
 	memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
 			[KNL] 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 equals to mem=nn[KMG]
+			which limits max address as nn[KMG].
+			Multiple different options can be put into one entry
+			with comma delimited to save space:
+			Example:
+				memmap=100M@2G,100M#3G,1G!1024G
 
 	memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
 			[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
@@ -2124,6 +2130,9 @@
 			         memmap=64K$0x18690000
 			         or
 			         memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
+			Some bootloaders may need escape character before '$',
+			like in grub2, otherwise '$' and the following number
+			will be eaten.
 
 	memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
 			[KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
-- 
2.5.5

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-09  5:57 [PATCH v4 0/3] Handle memmap and mem kernel options in boot stage kaslr Baoquan He
2017-05-09  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] KASLR: Parse all memmap entries in cmdline Baoquan He
2017-05-10 12:29   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-10 13:11     ` Baoquan He
2017-05-09  5:57 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] KASLR: Handle memory limit specified by memmap and mem option Baoquan He
2017-05-09 17:39   ` Kees Cook
2017-05-10  0:35     ` Baoquan He
2017-05-12  4:15   ` Masayoshi Mizuma
2017-05-12  5:06     ` Baoquan He
2017-05-09  5:57 ` Baoquan He [this message]

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