The patch titled
Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
add-documentation-for-extended-crashkernel-syntax.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax
From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~add-documentation-for-extended-crashkernel-syntax Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~add-documentation-for-extended-crashkernel-syntax
+++ a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -231,6 +231,32 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch
any space below the alignment point will be wasted.
+Extended crashkernel syntax
+===========================
+
+While the "crashkernel=size[@offset]" syntax is sufficient for most
+configurations, sometimes it's handy to have the reserved memory dependent
+on the value of System RAM -- that's mostly for distributors that pre-setup
+the kernel command line to avoid a unbootable system after some memory has
+been removed from the machine.
+
+The syntax is:
+
+ crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
+ range=start-[end]
+
+For example:
+
+ crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
+
+This would mean:
+
+ 1) if the RAM is smaller than 512M, then don't reserve anything
+ (this is the "rescue" case)
+ 2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G, then reserve 64M
+ 3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
+
+
Boot into System Kernel
=======================
diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~add-documentation-for-extended-crashkernel-syntax Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~add-documentation-for-extended-crashkernel-syntax
+++ a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -497,6 +497,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
[KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
+ crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
+ [KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
+ in the running system. The syntax of range is
+ start-[end] where start and end are both
+ a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
+ Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for a example.
+
cs4232= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bwalle@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
kexec-add-bss-to-resource-tree.patch
kexec-add-bss-to-resource-tree-checkpatch-fixes.patch
kexec-introduce-bootmem_exclusive.patch
kexec-introduce-bootmem_exclusive-checkpatch-fixes.patch
kexec-use-bootmem_exclusive-on-x86.patch
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