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author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2007-10-17 02:31:22 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-17 11:43:06 -0400 |
commit | f00b51654ec919620aec911b4c3fa4ef3952bb6d (patch) | |
tree | b7987d30e0cd7beaf9d7d9f114fe2c899563cb87 /arch/i386 | |
parent | 8bc9d4227f056f8ff435910b5582d0ec3243848e (diff) |
Update help text for CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
Fix typos in CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. Use tab + 2 spaces for indentation on all
lines.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index 1fb616235664..7a95c58947e4 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig | |||
@@ -831,12 +831,13 @@ config CRASH_DUMP | |||
831 | depends on HIGHMEM | 831 | depends on HIGHMEM |
832 | help | 832 | help |
833 | Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. | 833 | Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. |
834 | This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels | 834 | This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels |
835 | which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into | 835 | which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into |
836 | a specially reserved region and then later executed after | 836 | a specially reserved region and then later executed after |
837 | a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled | 837 | a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled |
838 | to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using | 838 | to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using |
839 | PHYSICAL_START. | 839 | PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image |
840 | (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). | ||
840 | For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 841 | For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt |
841 | 842 | ||
842 | config PHYSICAL_START | 843 | config PHYSICAL_START |
@@ -882,17 +883,17 @@ config PHYSICAL_START | |||
882 | Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. | 883 | Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. |
883 | 884 | ||
884 | config RELOCATABLE | 885 | config RELOCATABLE |
885 | bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)" | 886 | bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
886 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | 887 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
887 | help | 888 | help |
888 | This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information | 889 | This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information |
889 | so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. | 890 | so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. |
890 | The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, | 891 | The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, |
891 | but are discarded at runtime. | 892 | but are discarded at runtime. |
892 | 893 | ||
893 | One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel | 894 | One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel |
894 | must live at a different physical address than the primary | 895 | must live at a different physical address than the primary |
895 | kernel. | 896 | kernel. |
896 | 897 | ||
897 | config PHYSICAL_ALIGN | 898 | config PHYSICAL_ALIGN |
898 | hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" | 899 | hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" |