Hi Wenjian, On 08/03/16 at 10:31am, Zhou Wenjian wrote: > v3->v4: update the description of bring up SMP dump-capture kernel > v2->v3: add description of nr_cpus. > v1->v2: change nr_cpus to maxcpus > > nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it. > > Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst at cn.fujitsu.com> The change log can be put in cover-letter if you are posting a patchset, or put it below the three dashes where it will be discarded automatically when maintainer apply your patch to his/her branch. Next time please CC akpm too, he helps to pick up these kexec related patches. Except for this, I am fine with this patchset. Ack it again. Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com> Thanks Baoquan > --- > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > index 88ff63d..b474060 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > @@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel: > * We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the > dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture > kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel. > + Note, though maxcpus always works, we should replace it by nr_cpus to > + save memory if supported by the current ARCH, such as x86. > > * For s390x there are two kdump modes: If a ELF header is specified with > the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter, it is used by the kdump kernel as it > -- > 1.8.3.1 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
