[PATCH] Retrieve elfcorehdr address from command line

This patch adds support for retrieving the address of elf core header if one
is passed in command line.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 560ff5ae3fd9..f44bb5567c5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -451,6 +451,10 @@ running once the system is up.
                         Format: {"as"|"cfq"|"deadline"|"noop"}
                         See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt
                         and Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
+        elfcorehdr=     [IA-32]
+                        Specifies physical address of start of kernel core image
+                        elf header.
+                        See Documentation/kdump.txt for details.
 
         enforcing       [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
                         Format: {"0" | "1"}