[PATCH 06/10] arm64: Update booting.txt to reserved-memory nodes

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Thu Oct 23 16:10:58 PDT 2014


Change any reference of device tree '/memreserve/' entries in the arm64
booting.txt to refer to 'reserved-memory nodes'.  Reserved-memory nodes
are the preferred method of specifying reserved memory.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org>
---
 Documentation/arm64/booting.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
index f3c05b5..7446822 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ following manner:
   naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initalised memory location.
 
   These CPUs should spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area of
-  memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the
+  memory (communicated to the kernel by a reserved-memory node in the
   device tree) polling their cpu-release-addr location, which must be
   contained in the reserved region.  A wfe instruction may be inserted
   to reduce the overhead of the busy-loop and a sev will be issued by
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ following manner:
 - CPUs with a "psci" enable method should remain outside of
   the kernel (i.e. outside of the regions of memory described to the
   kernel in the memory node, or in a reserved area of memory described
-  to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the device tree).  The
+  to the kernel by a reserved-memory node in the device tree).  The
   kernel will issue CPU_ON calls as described in ARM document number ARM
   DEN 0022A ("Power State Coordination Interface System Software on ARM
   processors") to bring CPUs into the kernel.
-- 
1.9.1





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