On 07/29/16 at 11:23am, Zhou Wenjian wrote: > Parameter nr_cpus is used to bring up a SMP dump-capture kernel, > instead of the old parameter maxcpus. This commit update it in > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. > > Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst at cn.fujitsu.com> > --- > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > index 88ff63d..9a77247 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ 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. > + kernel or specify nr_cpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel. IIRC, ARCHes like ppc don't have nr_cpus yet, maxpcus is necessary. So either you explicitly tell which can use nr_cpus and which can only use maxcpus option, or drop this patch for now. > > * 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 > > >
