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| author | Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> | 2007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-19 11:53:51 -0700 |
| commit | fb391599f2eaf22197e3e914187c957ef7eeb4c5 (patch) | |
| tree | dfb5a952526b8fc8957ff8502f1f79890f00175d /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 7d7712a385d5b0a6f921dbd9b66ad3aaed387b5e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-fb391599f2eaf22197e3e914187c957ef7eeb4c5.tar.gz lwn-fb391599f2eaf22197e3e914187c957ef7eeb4c5.zip | |
Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 189df0bcab99..0a3fed445249 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -497,6 +497,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [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> |