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On Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt, section Boot into System Kernel: On x86 and x86_64, use
"crashkernel=64M at 16M", but some OSes like ubuntu 12.10 use ram fs larger than 64M, so in these cases the
memory reserved for crashkernel should be at least 128M.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou at ict.ac.cn>
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Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 13f1aa0..1e850e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -290,7 +290,9 @@ Boot into System Kernel
"crashkernel=64M at 16M" tells the system kernel to reserve 64 MB of memory
starting at physical address 0x01000000 (16MB) for the dump-capture kernel.
- On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M at 16M".
+ On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M at 16M" (some OSes use init ram fs larger
+than 64M, for example ubuntu-12.10, use crashkernel=128M at 16M instead, or dump-capture
+kernel will out of memory).
On ppc64, use "crashkernel=128M at 32M".
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