On Mon 12-02-18 16:24:25, David Rientjes wrote: > Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be used to define the amount of > ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE on a system, respectively. This requires > the system memory capacity to be known when specifying the command line, > however. > > This introduces the ability to define both kernelcore= and movablecore= > as a percentage of total system memory. This is convenient for systems > software that wants to define the amount of ZONE_MOVABLE, for example, as > a proportion of a system's memory rather than a hardcoded byte value. > > To define the percentage, the final character of the parameter should be > a '%'.
I do not have any objections regarding the extension. What I am more interested in is _why_ people are still using this command line parameter at all these days. Why would anybody want to introduce lowmem issues from 32b days. I can see the CMA/Hotplug usecases for ZONE_MOVABLE but those have their own ways to define zone movable. I was tempted to simply remove the kernelcore already. Could you be more specific what is your usecase which triggered a need of an easier scaling of the size? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
