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From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>,
	tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	"M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, bernhard.walle@gmx.de,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: [Patch 7/8] doc: update the kdump document
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:09:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904101203.5220.89839.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904101047.5220.20618.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>


Update the document for kdump.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>

---

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
=================================--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -147,6 +147,15 @@ System kernel config options
    analysis tools require a vmlinux with debug symbols in order to read
    and analyze a dump file.
 
+4) Enable "automatically reserve memory for kexec kernel" in
+   "Processor type and features."
+
+   CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE=y
+
+   This will let you to use "crashkernel=auto", instead of specifying
+   numbers for "crashkernel=". Note, you need to have enough memory.
+   The threshold and reserved memory size are arch-dependent.
+
 Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Independent)
 -----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -266,6 +275,26 @@ This would mean:
     2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M
     3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
 
+Or you can use:
+
+    crashkernel=auto
+
+if you have enough memory. The threshold is 4G on ia64 and x86, 2G on powerpc,
+below which this won't work.
+
+The automatically reserved memory size would be 128M on x86_32, 128M or 256M
+on ppc, 1/32 of your physical memory size on x86_64 and ppc64 (but it will not
+grow if you have more than 128G memory). IA64 has its own policy, shown below:
+
+	Memory size	Reserved memory
+	======	=======+	[4G, 12G)	256M
+	[12G, 128G)	512M
+	[128G, 256G)	768M
+	[256G, 378G)	1024M
+	[378G, 512G)	1536M
+	[512G, 768G)	2048M
+	[768G, )	3072M
 
 
 Boot into System Kernel

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From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>,
	tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	"M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, bernhard.walle@gmx.de,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: [Patch 7/8] doc: update the kdump document
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 06:09:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904101203.5220.89839.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904101047.5220.20618.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>


Update the document for kdump.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>

---

Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -147,6 +147,15 @@ System kernel config options
    analysis tools require a vmlinux with debug symbols in order to read
    and analyze a dump file.
 
+4) Enable "automatically reserve memory for kexec kernel" in
+   "Processor type and features."
+
+   CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE=y
+
+   This will let you to use "crashkernel=auto", instead of specifying
+   numbers for "crashkernel=". Note, you need to have enough memory.
+   The threshold and reserved memory size are arch-dependent.
+
 Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Independent)
 -----------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -266,6 +275,26 @@ This would mean:
     2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M
     3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
 
+Or you can use:
+
+    crashkernel=auto
+
+if you have enough memory. The threshold is 4G on ia64 and x86, 2G on powerpc,
+below which this won't work.
+
+The automatically reserved memory size would be 128M on x86_32, 128M or 256M
+on ppc, 1/32 of your physical memory size on x86_64 and ppc64 (but it will not
+grow if you have more than 128G memory). IA64 has its own policy, shown below:
+
+	Memory size	Reserved memory
+	===========	===============
+	[4G, 12G)	256M
+	[12G, 128G)	512M
+	[128G, 256G)	768M
+	[256G, 378G)	1024M
+	[378G, 512G)	1536M
+	[512G, 768G)	2048M
+	[768G, )	3072M
 
 
 Boot into System Kernel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04 10:08 [Patch 0/8] V6 Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:08 ` Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:08 ` [Patch 1/8] x86: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:08   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:08 ` [Patch 2/8] x86: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:08   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:08 ` [Patch 3/8] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:08   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09 ` [Patch 4/8] ia64: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09 ` [Patch 5/8] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09 ` [Patch 6/8] powerpc: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09 ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-09-04 10:09   ` [Patch 7/8] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09 ` [Patch 8/8] kexec: allow to shrink reserved memory Amerigo Wang
2009-09-04 10:09   ` Amerigo Wang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-27  3:15 [Patch 0/8] V5 Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-27  3:16 ` [Patch 7/8] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang
2009-08-27  3:16   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12  8:15 [Patch 0/8] V3 Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12  8:16 ` [Patch 7/8] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang
2009-08-12  8:16   ` Amerigo Wang

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