The patch titled
Kdump documentation update: ia64 portion
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kdump-documentation-update-for-2620-ia64-portion.patch
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Subject: Kdump documentation update: ia64 portion
From: Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
this patch fills in the portions for ia64 kexec.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Zou, Nanhai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff -puN
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~kdump-documentation-update-for-2620-ia64-portion
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
---
a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~kdump-documentation-update-for-2620-ia64-portion
+++ a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ You can use common Linux commands, such
memory image to a dump file on the local disk, or across the network to
a remote system.
-Kdump and kexec are currently supported on the x86, x86_64, ppc64 and IA64
+Kdump and kexec are currently supported on the x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64
architectures.
When the system kernel boots, it reserves a small section of memory for
@@ -229,7 +229,23 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch
Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ia64)
----------------------------------------------------------
-(To be filled)
+
+- No specific options are required to create a dump-capture kernel
+ for ia64, other than those specified in the arch idependent section
+ above. This means that it is possible to use the system kernel
+ as a dump-capture kernel if desired.
+
+ The crashkernel region can be automatically placed by the system
+ kernel at run time. This is done by specifying the base address as 0,
+ or omitting it all together.
+
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ or
+ crashkernel=256M
+
+ If the start address is specified, not that the start address of the
+ kernel will be alligned to 64Mb, so any if the start address is not then
+ any space below the alignment point will be wasted.
Boot into System Kernel
@@ -248,6 +264,10 @@ Boot into System Kernel
On ppc64, use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
+ On ia64, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a generous value that typically works.
+ The region may be automatically placed on ia64, see the
+ dump-capture kernel config option notes above.
+
Load the Dump-capture Kernel
============================
@@ -266,7 +286,8 @@ For x86_64:
For ppc64:
- Use vmlinux
For ia64:
- (To be filled)
+ - Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz
+
If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
to load dump-capture kernel.
@@ -282,18 +303,19 @@ to load dump-capture kernel.
--initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> \
--append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
+Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64.
+It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now
+it should be omitted
+
Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while
loading dump-capture kernel.
-For i386 and x86_64:
+For i386, x86_64 and ia64:
"init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"
For ppc64:
"init 1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib"
-For IA64
- (To be filled)
-
Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
kdump-documentation-update-for-2620-kexec-tools-update.patch
kdump-documentation-update-for-2620-ia64-portion.patch
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