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Commit 1edf7778 authored Sep 26, 2006 by Andi Kleen Committed by Andi Kleen Sep 26, 2006

[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Improve Kconfig description of CRASH_DUMP



Improve Kconfig description of CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP. Previously
it was too brief to be useful.

Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

parent cbf9b4bb

arch/i386/Kconfig

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		@@ -761,6 +761,13 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
		depends on HIGHMEM
		help
		Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
		This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
		which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
		a specially reserved region and then later executed after
		a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
		to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
		PHYSICAL_START.
		For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

		config PHYSICAL_START
		hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED \|\| CRASH_DUMP)

arch/x86_64/Kconfig

+8 −1

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		@@ -489,6 +489,13 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
		depends on EXPERIMENTAL
		help
		Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
		This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
		which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
		a specially reserved region and then later executed after
		a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
		to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
		PHYSICAL_START.
		For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

		config PHYSICAL_START
		hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED \|\| CRASH_DUMP)