[PATCH v2 6/6] ARM: use MiB for vmalloc sizes

Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk
Fri May 28 03:11:57 PDT 2021


Rather than using "m" (which is the unit of metres, or milli), and
"MB" in the printk statements, use MiB to make it clear that we are
talking about the power-of-2 megabytes, aka mebibytes.

Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
---
 arch/arm/mm/mmu.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
index d52647b6261c..a96e9420ec2a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ static unsigned long __initdata vmalloc_size = 240 * SZ_1M;
 /*
  * vmalloc=size forces the vmalloc area to be exactly 'size'
  * bytes. This can be used to increase (or decrease) the vmalloc
- * area - the default is 240m.
+ * area - the default is 240MiB.
  */
 static int __init early_vmalloc(char *arg)
 {
@@ -1137,14 +1137,14 @@ static int __init early_vmalloc(char *arg)
 
 	if (vmalloc_reserve < SZ_16M) {
 		vmalloc_reserve = SZ_16M;
-		pr_warn("vmalloc area too small, limiting to %luMB\n",
+		pr_warn("vmalloc area is too small, limiting to %luMiB\n",
 			vmalloc_reserve >> 20);
 	}
 
 	vmalloc_max = VMALLOC_END - (PAGE_OFFSET + SZ_32M + VMALLOC_OFFSET);
 	if (vmalloc_reserve > vmalloc_max) {
 		vmalloc_reserve = vmalloc_max;
-		pr_warn("vmalloc area is too big, limiting to %luMB\n",
+		pr_warn("vmalloc area is too big, limiting to %luMiB\n",
 			vmalloc_reserve >> 20);
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1




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