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From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	"Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
	"Mahesh J Salgaonkar" <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 2/2] powerpc/fadump: update documentation about 'fadump_append=' parameter
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 23:52:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <149383576571.1694.13692135068122879322.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149383572199.1694.10940679065871920087.stgit@hbathini.in.ibm.com>

With the introduction of 'fadump_append=' parameter to pass additional
parameters to fadump (capture) kernel, update documentation about it.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

Changes from v4:
* Based on top of patchset that includes
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=akpm&id=05f383cdfba8793240e73f9a9fbff4e25d66003f


 Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
index 8394bc8..6327193 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/firmware-assisted-dump.txt
@@ -162,7 +162,15 @@ 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 'crashkernel=' kernel cmdline
+3. A user can pass additional command line parameters as a comma
+   separated list through 'fadump_append=' parameter, to be enforced
+   when fadump is active. For example, if parameters like nr_cpus=1,
+   numa=off & udev.children-max=2 are to be enforced when fadump is
+   active, 'fadump_append=nr_cpus=1,numa=off,udev.children-max=2'
+   can be passed in command line, which will be replaced with
+   "nr_cpus=1 numa=off udev.children-max=2" when fadump is active.
+   This helps in reducing memory consumption during dump capture.
+4. Optionally, user can also set 'crashkernel=' kernel cmdline
    to specify size of the memory to reserve for boot memory dump
    preservation.
 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-03 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-03 18:22 [PATCH v5 1/2] powerpc/fadump: reduce memory consumption for capture kernel Hari Bathini
2017-05-03 18:22 ` Hari Bathini [this message]
2017-05-10 16:01   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] powerpc/fadump: update documentation about 'fadump_append=' parameter Michal Suchánek
2017-05-10 20:30     ` Hari Bathini
2017-05-11 13:16       ` Michal Suchánek
2017-05-12  9:45         ` Hari Bathini
2017-05-12 15:42           ` Michal Suchánek
2017-05-15  7:29             ` Hari Bathini
2017-05-15  9:29               ` Michal Suchánek
2017-06-08 18:00                 ` Hari Bathini
2017-06-09 12:04                   ` Michal Suchánek
2017-06-20 15:44                     ` Hari Bathini
2017-06-26 12:15                       ` Michal Suchánek
2017-07-11 18:30                         ` Hari Bathini
2017-07-12 11:31                           ` msuchanek
2017-07-12 12:15                             ` Hari Bathini
2017-05-11 15:07       ` Michal Suchánek

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