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From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, dyoung@redhat.com,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 5/5] powerpc/fadump: update documentation about crashkernel parameter reuse
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 23:02:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <148363755901.11570.8597979444190216964.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <148363729327.11570.6244765717789390817.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com>

As we are reusing crashkernel parameter instead of fadump_reserve_mem
parameter to specify the memory to reserve for fadump's crash kernel,
update the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt |   23 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
index 3007bc9..8394bc8 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
@@ -55,10 +55,14 @@ as follows:
          booted with restricted memory. By default, the boot memory
          size will be the larger of 5% of system RAM or 256MB.
          Alternatively, user can also specify boot memory size
-         through boot parameter 'fadump_reserve_mem=' which will
-         override the default calculated size. Use this option
-         if default boot memory size is not sufficient for second
-         kernel to boot successfully.
+         through boot parameter 'crashkernel=' which will override
+         the default calculated size. Use this option if default
+         boot memory size is not sufficient for second kernel to
+         boot successfully. For syntax of crashkernel= parameter,
+         refer to Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. If any offset is
+         provided in crashkernel= parameter, it will be ignored
+         as fadump reserves memory at end of RAM for boot memory
+         dump preservation in case of a crash.
 
 -- After the low memory (boot memory) area has been saved, the
    firmware will reset PCI and other hardware state.  It will
@@ -158,13 +162,16 @@ How to enable firmware-assisted dump (fadump):
 
 1. Set config option CONFIG_FA_DUMP=y and build kernel.
 2. Boot into linux kernel with 'fadump=on' kernel cmdline option.
-3. Optionally, user can also set 'fadump_reserve_mem=' kernel cmdline
+3. Optionally, user can also set 'crashkernel=' kernel cmdline
    to specify size of the memory to reserve for boot memory dump
    preservation.
 
-NOTE: If firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve memory then it will
-   fallback to existing kdump mechanism if 'crashkernel=' option
-   is set at kernel cmdline.
+NOTE: 1. 'fadump_reserve_mem=' parameter has been deprecated. Instead
+         use 'crashkernel=' to specify size of the memory to reserve
+         for boot memory dump preservation.
+      2. If firmware-assisted dump fails to reserve memory then it
+         will fallback to existing kdump mechanism if 'crashkernel='
+         option is set at kernel cmdline.
 
 Sysfs/debugfs files:
 ------------

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-05 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-05 17:28 [PATCH v4 0/5] kexec/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC and reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump Hari Bathini
2017-01-05 17:29 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] crash: move crashkernel parsing and vmcore related code under CONFIG_CRASH_CORE Hari Bathini
2017-01-06  2:02   ` Dave Young
2017-03-23 15:54   ` Hari Bathini
2017-01-05 17:31 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] ia64: reuse append_elf_note() and final_note() functions Hari Bathini
2017-01-06  2:03   ` Dave Young
2017-01-17 17:06     ` Hari Bathini
2017-01-24 18:11       ` Hari Bathini
2017-01-24 18:23         ` Tony Luck
2017-01-25 19:15           ` Hari Bathini
2017-01-31 22:21             ` Tony Luck
2017-02-01  1:11               ` Michael Ellerman
2017-01-20  5:47   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-01-24 18:08     ` Hari Bathini
2017-01-05 17:32 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] powerpc/fadump: remove dependency with CONFIG_KEXEC Hari Bathini
2017-01-13 11:27   ` Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
2017-01-05 17:32 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] powerpc/fadump: reuse crashkernel parameter for fadump memory reservation Hari Bathini
2017-01-13 11:51   ` Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
2017-01-05 17:32 ` Hari Bathini [this message]

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