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authorBharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com>2017-07-13 00:33:24 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-13 02:26:00 +0300
commita711bdc095d2c9b6ad15e737d1cdc46409b09538 (patch)
tree8baec4072d63319127d272a2d056bbf48157a037
parent1229384f5b856d83698c38f9dedfd836e26711cb (diff)
downloadlinux-a711bdc095d2c9b6ad15e737d1cdc46409b09538.tar.xz
kexec/kdump: minor Documentation updates for arm64 and Image
Minor updates in Documentation for arm64 as relocatable kernel. Also this patch updates documentation for using uncompressed image "Image" which is used for ARM64. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495104793-6563-1-git-send-email-Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 615434d81108..51814450a7f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
only with the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
- of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64 and arm architectures support relocatable
- kernel.
+ of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64, arm and arm64 architectures support
+ relocatable kernel.
Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that
one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ For arm:
For arm64:
- Use vmlinux or Image
-If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
+If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
to load dump-capture kernel.
kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \
@@ -361,6 +361,12 @@ to load dump-capture kernel.
--dtb=<dtb-for-dump-capture-kernel> \
--append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
+If you are using an uncompressed Image, then use following command
+to load dump-capture kernel.
+
+ kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-Image> \
+ --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