From 1edf777803bdd2aeeb04cf44508fd9b88737fba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:52:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Improve Kconfig description of CRASH_DUMP 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 --- arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86_64/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig index 6cd4878625f1..927b392a4aa0 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig @@ -488,7 +488,14 @@ 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) -- cgit v1.2.3