handle kernelcore=: generic
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86. Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation. From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64 because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled in an architecture-independent manner. This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will ignore the boot parameter. [bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -1348,6 +1348,21 @@ nr_hugepages configures number of hugetlb page reserved for the system.
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hugetlb_shm_group contains group id that is allowed to create SysV shared
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memory segment using hugetlb page.
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hugepages_treat_as_movable
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This parameter is only useful when kernelcore= is specified at boot time to
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create ZONE_MOVABLE for pages that may be reclaimed or migrated. Huge pages
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are not movable so are not normally allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. A non-zero
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value written to hugepages_treat_as_movable allows huge pages to be allocated
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from ZONE_MOVABLE.
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Once enabled, the ZONE_MOVABLE is treated as an area of memory the huge
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pages pool can easily grow or shrink within. Assuming that applications are
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not running that mlock() a lot of memory, it is likely the huge pages pool
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can grow to the size of ZONE_MOVABLE by repeatedly entering the desired value
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into nr_hugepages and triggering page reclaim.
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laptop_mode
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