Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add 'crashkernel=auto' entry into kernel-parameters.txt

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 08/21/15 23:51, Yaowei Bai wrote:
> There is no 'crashkernel=auto' entry in kernel-parameters.txt, borrow it
> from kexec-kdump-howto.txt file in the kexec-tools-2.0.0 package.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 1d6f045..4da77fa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -797,6 +797,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
>  			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
>  			or memory reserved is below 4G.
>  
> +	crashkernel=auto
> +			This specification allows the kernel to decide how much
> +			meory to reserve for the purposes of kdump. It will make

			memory

> +			this determination based on the amount of memory you have
> +			in your system, and scale the allocation accordingly.
> +			Note that if you have less than 4Gb of memory in your system,
> +			this specification will opt to not allocate any memory for
> +			the purposes of kdump.
> +
>  	cs89x0_dma=	[HW,NET]
>  			Format: <dma>
>  
> 


-- 
~Randy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite Forum]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Resources]

  Powered by Linux