[PATCH 1/1] On Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt, section Boot into System Kernel: On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M@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.

Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:50:10 +0800

From: root <root@zzy-Lenovo.(none)>


Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 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@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@16M".
+   On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M@16M" (some OSes use init ram fs larger
+than 64M, for example ubuntu-12.10, use crashkernel=128M@16M instead, or dump-capture
+kernel will out of memory).
 
    On ppc64, use "crashkernel=128M@32M".
 
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1.7.10.4

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