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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Add extended crashkernel syntax to kernel-parameters.txt
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:25:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070922182556.GA3353@suse.de> (raw)

This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.


Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>

---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -498,6 +498,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
 			[KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
 			hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
 
+	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
+			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
+			in the running system. The syntax of range is
+			start-[end] where start and end are both
+			a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
+			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
+
 	cs4232=		[HW,OSS]
 			Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>
 

             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-22 18:26 UTC|newest]

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2007-09-22 18:25 [PATCH] Add extended crashkernel syntax to kernel-parameters.txt Bernhard Walle

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