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authorBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>2007-10-18 23:41:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 11:53:51 -0700
commitfb391599f2eaf22197e3e914187c957ef7eeb4c5 (patch)
treedfb5a952526b8fc8957ff8502f1f79890f00175d /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
parent7d7712a385d5b0a6f921dbd9b66ad3aaed387b5e (diff)
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>
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@@ -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>