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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix memmap= language
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Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options.

Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or
"marked".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored and Linus Torvalds committed Feb 6, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -1726,16 +1726,16 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
option description.

memmap=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
[KNL] Force usage of a specific region of memory.
Region of memory to be used is from ss to ss+nn.

memmap=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG]
[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data.
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
Region of memory to be marked is from ss to ss+nn.

memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG]
[KNL,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved.
Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
Region of memory to be reserved is from ss to ss+nn.
Example: Exclude memory from 0x18690000-0x1869ffff
memmap=64K$0x18690000
or
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