Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix | Date | Mon, 7 Aug 2006 04:06:45 +0200 |
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On Sunday 06 August 2006 21:15, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:22:04 +0100 (BST) > Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote: > > > I was impressed by how fast 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 is under memory pressure, > > until I noticed that my "mem=512M" boot option was doing nothing. The > > two fixes below got it working, but I wonder how many other early_param > > "option=" args are wrong (e.g. "memmap=" in the same file): x86_64 > > shows many such, i386 shows only one, I've not followed it up further. > > Thanks again. > > Andi, it sounds like so many fixes will be needed there that it's worth > dropping, pending rev #2.
Yes, it looks like it. Now I remember why I dropped this a long time ago already ;-)
After fixing Hugh's issue with all parameters (there were some more with this) the kernel goes into an endless loop at boot when you have one which is a full prefix of another.
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