The patch titled kexec: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kexec-make-extended-crashkernel=-syntax-less-confusing-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kexec: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> Reflect the changes from Michael Ellerman in crashkernel syntax that make the end of the memory exclusive in the documentation. It was simply not specified before. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~make-extended-crashkernel=-syntax-less-confusing Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~make-extended-crashkernel=-syntax-less-confusing +++ a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ The syntax is: crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset] range=start-[end] + 'start' is inclusive and 'end' is exclusive. + For example: crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M @@ -253,10 +255,11 @@ 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 + 2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M 3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M + Boot into System Kernel ======================= _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bwalle@xxxxxxx are kexec-make-extended-crashkernel=-syntax-less-confusing.patch kexec-make-extended-crashkernel=-syntax-less-confusing-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html