[PATCH for review] [120/145] i386/x86-64: Improve Kconfig description of CRASH_DUMP

Andi Kleen
2006-08-10T19:53:07Z

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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>

---
arch/i386/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -759,6 +759,13 @@ 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)
Index: linux/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -484,7 +484,14 @@ 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)