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From: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: [Patch 7/7] doc: update the kdump document
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:20:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090805112230.6552.87209.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090805112123.6552.73574.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 +275,13 @@ 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, below which this won't work.
+Also the automatically reserved memory size would be 128M on x86, 256M on
+other platforms that have KEXEC.
 
 
 Boot into System Kernel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-05 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05 11:19 [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 1/7] x86: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:41   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 14:45   ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-05 20:07     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  1:55     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  7:15       ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-06  7:44         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  7:56         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 2/7] x86: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:43   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-06  1:45     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 22:51   ` Yu, Fenghua
2009-08-06  1:56     ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 3/7] ia64: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:49   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 4/7] ia64: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:46   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:19 ` [Patch 5/7] powerpc: add CONFIG_KEXEC_AUTO_RESERVE Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:49   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:20 ` [Patch 6/7] powerpc: implement crashkernel=auto Amerigo Wang
2009-08-05 13:50   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 11:20 ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-08-05 13:33 ` [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-05 14:04   ` Neil Horman
2009-08-05 22:57     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  2:05       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  2:47         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  3:39           ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  3:51             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  5:57               ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  6:14                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  6:37                   ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  8:35                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  8:47                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-06  9:04                         ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-07 19:13                         ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-06  9:11                       ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-07 19:50                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-07 21:03                           ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-07 21:26                             ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-07 22:06                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-07 21:31                           ` Bernhard Walle
2009-08-07 22:16                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-10  3:11                           ` Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  1:39   ` Amerigo Wang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-06  6:19 [Patch 0/7] V2 " Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06  6:20 ` [Patch 7/7] doc: update the kdump document Amerigo Wang

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