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

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

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
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