Kconfig for kdump

PATCH In review Vivek Goyal 1 participant 1 message Mar 28, 2005

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Vivek Goyal

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2005-03-28 13:42 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 9/17 Kconfig for kdump

o config option CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
o Made it dependent on HIGHMEM. This is required as capture kernel treats the previous kernel's memory as high memmory and stitches a PTE for accessing it.

Signed-off-by Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>

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 linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-1M-root/arch/i386/Kconfig |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

arch/i386/Kconfig renamed from arch/i386/Kconfig~crashdump-x86-kconfig +7 -0

diff -puN arch/i386/Kconfig~crashdump-x86-kconfig arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -955,6 +955,13 @@ config KEXEC
 	  support.  As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
 	  strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
 
+config CRASH_DUMP
+	bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on EMBEDDED
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+	depends on HIGHMEM
+	help
+	  Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
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