[PATCH 5/8] ppc and powerpc - Specify amount of kernel memory at boot time

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 05:10:14 EST



This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for ppc and powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---

powerpc/kernel/prom.c | 1 +
ppc/mm/init.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.20-mm2-004_x86_set_kernelcore/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c linux-2.6.20-mm2-005_ppc64_set_kernelcore/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
--- linux-2.6.20-mm2-004_x86_set_kernelcore/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c 2007-02-19 01:19:32.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm2-005_ppc64_set_kernelcore/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c 2007-02-19 09:17:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ static int __init early_parse_mem(char *
return 0;
}
early_param("mem", early_parse_mem);
+early_param("kernelcore", cmdline_parse_kernelcore);

/*
* The device tree may be allocated below our memory limit, or inside the
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.20-mm2-004_x86_set_kernelcore/arch/ppc/mm/init.c linux-2.6.20-mm2-005_ppc64_set_kernelcore/arch/ppc/mm/init.c
--- linux-2.6.20-mm2-004_x86_set_kernelcore/arch/ppc/mm/init.c 2007-02-04 18:44:54.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.20-mm2-005_ppc64_set_kernelcore/arch/ppc/mm/init.c 2007-02-19 09:17:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ void MMU_setup(void)
}
}

+early_param("kernelcore", cmdline_parse_kernelcore);
+
/*
* MMU_init sets up the basic memory mappings for the kernel,
* including both RAM and possibly some I/O regions,
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