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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst index b0a1ae7df13b..8f107d8c9261 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Ramoops oops/panic logger Sergiu Iordache <sergiu@chromium.org> -Updated: 17 November 2011 +Updated: 10 Feb 2021 Introduction ------------ @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ mapping to pgprot_writecombine. Setting ``mem_type=1`` attempts to use depends on atomic operations. At least on ARM, pgprot_noncached causes the memory to be mapped strongly ordered, and atomic operations on strongly ordered memory are implementation defined, and won't work on many ARMs such as omaps. +Setting ``mem_type=2`` attempts to treat the memory region as normal memory, +which enables full cache on it. This can improve the performance. The memory area is divided into ``record_size`` chunks (also rounded down to power of two) and each kmesg dump writes a ``record_size`` chunk of |