The patch titled
kexec: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
kexec-make-extended-crashkernel=-syntax-less-confusing-fix.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into kexec-make-extended-crashkernel=-syntax-less-confusing.patch
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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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
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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
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