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[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Improve Kconfig description of CRASH_DUMP
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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>
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Andi Kleen authored and Andi Kleen committed Sep 26, 2006
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions arch/i386/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -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)
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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86_64/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -488,7 +488,14 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
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)
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