From aac04b32f3e4c63f461459d0e1d6aa01caac6e66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vivek Goyal Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:51:47 -0800 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 12b7d938a89..dd0bfc291a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -475,10 +475,11 @@ running once the system is up. See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details. - elfcorehdr= [IA-32] + elfcorehdr= [IA-32, X86_64] Specifies physical address of start of kernel core - image elf header. - See Documentation/kdump.txt for details. + image elf header. Generally kexec loader will + pass this option to capture kernel. + See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details. enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status. Format: {"0" | "1"} -- cgit v1.2.3