From f00b51654ec919620aec911b4c3fa4ef3952bb6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:31:22 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Bernhard Walle Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Haren Myneni Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/i386/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/i386') diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index 1fb61623566..7a95c58947e 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -831,12 +831,13 @@ config CRASH_DUMP depends on HIGHMEM help Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. - This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels + This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into a specially reserved region and then later executed after a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled - to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using - PHYSICAL_START. + to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using + PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image + (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y). For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt config PHYSICAL_START @@ -882,17 +883,17 @@ config PHYSICAL_START Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. config RELOCATABLE - bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)" + bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL help This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information - so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. + so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB. The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger, - but are discarded at runtime. + but are discarded at runtime. One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel - must live at a different physical address than the primary - kernel. + must live at a different physical address than the primary + kernel. config PHYSICAL_ALIGN hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned" -- cgit v1.2.3