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A typo about kernelcore= ?

DISCUSSION Han Pingtian 3 participants 3 messages Dec 7, 2012 – Dec 13, 2012

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Hi there,

I'm wondering this is a typo in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt about "kernelcore=":

.... In the event, a node is too small to have both kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will take priority and other nodes will have a larger number of kernelcore pages.

I think it should be

.... In the event, a node is too small to have both kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will take priority and other nodes will have a larger number of *Movable* pages.

Is it right? Thanks in advance!

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Quoted 10 lines · Han Pingtian

Hi there,

I'm wondering this is a typo in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt about "kernelcore=":

.... In the event, a node is too small to have both kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will take priority and other nodes will have a larger number of kernelcore pages.

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I think it should be

.... In the event, a node is too small to have both kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will take priority and other nodes will have a larger number of *Movable* pages.

Is it right? Thanks in advance!

adding the maintainer.

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Quoted 13 lines · anish kumar
Quoted 12 lines · Han Pingtian

Hi there,

I'm wondering this is a typo in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt about "kernelcore=":

.... In the event, a node is too small to have both kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will take priority and other nodes will have a larger number of kernelcore pages.

I think it should be

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Quoted 6 lines

.... In the event, a node is too small to have both kernelcore and Movable pages, kernelcore pages will take priority and other nodes will have a larger number of *Movable* pages.

Is it right? Thanks in advance!

adding the maintainer.

yeah, larger number of movable pages

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