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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2006-01-09 23:51:47 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-10 11:01:27 -0500
commitaac04b32f3e4c63f461459d0e1d6aa01caac6e66 (patch)
treef8bfb3cf1850b4e9f1f450c09d9cb33a3b29d667 /Documentation
parent69cda7b1f06befb8d6a884b8a663d19dcaef590b (diff)
[PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add elfcorehdr command line option
- elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the crashed kernel. This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools to capture kernel. Changes in this version : - Added more comments in kernel-parameters.txt and in code. Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -475,10 +475,11 @@ running once the system is up.
475 See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and 475 See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
476 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. 476 Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
477 477
478 elfcorehdr= [IA-32] 478 elfcorehdr= [IA-32, X86_64]
479 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core 479 Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
480 image elf header. 480 image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
481 See Documentation/kdump.txt for details. 481 pass this option to capture kernel.
482 See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
482 483
483 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. 484 enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
484 Format: {"0" | "1"} 485 Format: {"0" | "1"}