11 Jan, 2006

3 commits

  • Update the kdump documentation to reflect the changes due to recent kernel
    config option changes for kexec and kdump.

    Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Maneesh Soni
     
  • - 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
    Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Vivek Goyal
     
  • )

    From: Vivek Goyal

    - This patch introduces the memmap option for x86_64 similar to i386.

    - memmap=exactmap enables setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified
    by the user.

    Changes in this version:

    - Used e820_end_of_ram() to find the max_pfn as suggested by Andi kleen.

    - removed PFN_UP & PFN_DOWN macros

    - Printing the user defined map also.

    Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy
    Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha
    Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    akpm@osdl.org
     

10 Jan, 2006

33 commits


09 Jan, 2006

4 commits