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

Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-10T21:09:47Z

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:37:19 +0200 (CEST) Andi Kleen wrote:

> r
>
> 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)
> -

Please fix indentation (use tabs consistently).

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~Randy