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| author | Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> | 2006-01-09 20:51:47 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-10 08:01:27 -0800 |
| commit | aac04b32f3e4c63f461459d0e1d6aa01caac6e66 (patch) | |
| tree | f8bfb3cf1850b4e9f1f450c09d9cb33a3b29d667 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 69cda7b1f06befb8d6a884b8a663d19dcaef590b (diff) | |
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[PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add elfcorehdr command line option
- elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the
crashed kernel. This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools
to capture kernel.
Changes in this version :
- Added more comments in kernel-parameters.txt and in code.
Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 12b7d938a897..dd0bfc291a68 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -475,10 +475,11 @@ running once the system is up. See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. - elfcorehdr= [IA-32] + elfcorehdr= [IA-32, X86_64] Specifies physical address of start of kernel core - image elf header. - See Documentation/kdump.txt for details. + image elf header. Generally kexec loader will + pass this option to capture kernel. + See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. Format: {"0" | "1"} |