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yaml
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r: 45244
b: refs/heads/master
c: dd0ec16
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a75acf850ca80136a4f845cf9a7cd26e7465c1f4
+refs/heads/master: dd0ec16fa6cf2498b831663a543e1b67fce6e155

trunk/arch/i386/Kconfig

@@ -777,6 +777,47 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
           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)
+	default "0x100000"
+	help
+	  This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded.
+
+	  If kernel is a not relocatable (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n) then
+	  bzImage will decompress itself to above physical address and
+	  run from there. Otherwise, bzImage will run from the address where
+	  it has been loaded by the boot loader and will ignore above physical
+	  address.
+
+	  In normal kdump cases one does not have to set/change this option
+	  as now bzImage can be compiled as a completely relocatable image
+	  (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) and be used to load and run from a different
+	  address. This option is mainly useful for the folks who don't want
+	  to use a bzImage for capturing the crash dump and want to use a
+	  vmlinux instead. vmlinux is not relocatable hence a kernel needs
+	  to be specifically compiled to run from a specific memory area
+	  (normally a reserved region) and this option comes handy.
+
+	  So if you are using bzImage for capturing the crash dump, leave
+	  the value here unchanged to 0x100000 and set CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
+	  Otherwise if you plan to use vmlinux for capturing the crash dump
+	  change this value to start of the reserved region (Typically 16MB
+	  0x1000000). In other words, it can be set based on the "X" value as
+	  specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter
+	  passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as
+	  crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at
+	  Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps.
+
+	  Usage of bzImage for capturing the crash dump is recommended as
+	  one does not have to build two kernels. Same kernel can be used
+	  as production kernel and capture kernel. Above option should have
+	  gone away after relocatable bzImage support is introduced. But it
+	  is present because there are users out there who continue to use
+	  vmlinux for dump capture. This option should go away down the
+	  line.
+
+	  Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
+
 config RELOCATABLE
 	bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on EXPERIMENTAL

trunk/include/asm-i386/boot.h

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 #define ASK_VGA		0xfffd		/* ask for it at bootup */
 
 /* Physical address where kenrel should be loaded. */
-#define LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR ((0x100000 + CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1) \
+#define LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR ((CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START \
+				+ (CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1)) \
 				& ~(CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN - 1))
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_BOOT_H */