Commit 75c05fab authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs/kernel-parameters: update description of mem=

The existing description of mem= does not cover all the cases and
differences between how architectures treat it.

Extend the description to match the code.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220310082736.1346366-1-rppt@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent c01c2e43
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For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.rst
mem=nn[KMG] [HEXAGON] Set the memory size.
Must be specified, otherwise memory size will be 0.
mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific amount of memory
Amount of memory to be used in cases as follows:
......@@ -2834,6 +2837,13 @@
2 when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory;
3 memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary is excluded from
the hypervisor, then assigned to KVM guests.
4 to limit the memory available for kdump kernel.
[ARC,MICROBLAZE] - the limit applies only to low memory,
high memory is not affected.
[ARM64] - only limits memory covered by the linear
mapping. The NOMAP regions are not affected.
[X86] Work as limiting max address. Use together
with memmap= to avoid physical address space collisions.
......@@ -2844,6 +2854,14 @@
in above case 3, memory may need be hot added after boot
if system memory of hypervisor is not sufficient.
mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
[ARM,MIPS] - override the memory layout reported by
firmware.
Define a memory region of size nn[KMG] starting at
ss[KMG].
Multiple different regions can be specified with
multiple mem= parameters on the command line.
mem=nopentium [BUGS=X86-32] Disable usage of 4MB pages for kernel
memory.
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