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Simon Horman db6857c6e7 kdump: update kexec-tools URL and Vivek's email
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-25 14:36:38 +01:00
Matt LaPlante 19f5946001 trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
Fix various typos in documentation txts.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Mohan Kumar M 54622f10a6 powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernel
This adds relocatable kernel support for kdump. With this one can
use the same regular kernel to capture the kdump. A signature (0xfeed1234)
is passed in r6 from panic code to the next kernel through kexec_sequence
and purgatory code. The signature is used to differentiate between
kdump kernel and non-kdump kernels.

The purgatory code compares the signature and sets the __kdump_flag in
head_64.S.  During the boot up, kernel code checks __kdump_flag and if it
is set, the kernel will behave as relocatable kdump kernel. This kernel
will boot at the address where it was loaded by kexec-tools ie. at the
address reserved through crashkernel boot parameter.

CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depends on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE option to build kdump
kernel as relocatable. So the same kernel can be used as production and
kdump kernel.

This patch incorporates the changes suggested by Paul Mackerras to avoid
GOT use and to avoid two copies of the code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-22 15:01:22 +11:00
Simon Horman d84a52f62f kdump: update kdump documentation as kexec-tools-resting has been renamed kexec-tools
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
Bernhard Walle 068b453834 x86: fix documentation bug about relocatability
This patch fixes a small bug in documentation: x86_64 also has now
the ability to build a relocatable kernel.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:16:18 +02:00
Michael Ellerman be089d79c4 kexec: make extended crashkernel= syntax less confusing
The extended crashkernel syntax is a little confusing in the way it handles
ranges.  eg:

 crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M

Means if the machine has between 512M and 2G of memory the crash region should
be 64M, and if the machine has 2G of memory the region should be 64M.  Only if
the machine has more than 2G memory will 128M be allocated.

Although that semantic is correct, it is somewhat baffling.  Instead I propose
that the end of the range means the first address past the end of the range,
ie: 512M up to but not including 2G.

[bwalle@suse.de: clarify inclusive/exclusive in crashkernel commandline in documentation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01 08:04:00 -07:00
Bernhard Walle fb391599f2 Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:51 -07:00
Pavel Machek f4e875704d kdump: documentation cleanups
This cleans up kdump documentation a bit. Plus I do not think we want
to mention Linux trademark in _every_ file in documentation....

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
Bernhard Walle ac984abe12 Add reset_devices to the recommended parameters
This patch adds the "reset_devices" option (that's used only by one device
driver for now) to the recommended list of command line parameters for kdump.

Meaning (Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt):
    reset_devices   [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device
                    during initialization.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
Bernhard Walle 4fd45090d6 Express new ELF32 mechanisms in documentation
This patch reflects the
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=commit;h=b9c3648e690ad0dad12389659673206213a09760
change in kexec-tools-testing also now in the kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
Bernhard Walle 8bc9d4227f Express relocatability of kernel on x86_64 in documentation
This patch adapts the Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt file to express the fact
that the x86_64 kernel is now also relocatable.  This makes i386 and x86_64
now behave the same, simplifying the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
Simon Horman 304301347b [PATCH] PPC64 Kdump documentation update
Patch from Mohan Kumar M to add the ppc64 portions of the kdump
documentation.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/481689/focus=3375

Cc: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:15 -08:00
Horms 473e66fd24 [PATCH] kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexec
I've noticed that the boot options are not correct for in the documentation
for kdump.  The "init" keyword is not necessary, and causes a kernel panic
when booting with an initrd on Fedora 5.

[horms@verge.net.au: put original comment with the latest version of the patch]
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter <judith@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:29 -08:00
Horms ee8bb9eae6 [PATCH] Kdump documentation update: ia64 portion
this patch fills in the portions for ia64 kexec.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: "Zou, Nanhai" <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 07:52:07 -08:00
Horms ea112bd549 [PATCH] Kdump documentation update: kexec-tools update
Mohan Kumar suggested making kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz a link to the
latest version.  I have done this and this patch updates the documentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23 07:52:06 -08:00
Vivek Goyal 9c61a446a1 [PATCH] Kdump documentation update
o Kdump documentation update.
	- Update details for using relocatable kernel.
	- Start using kexec-tools-testing release as it is latest and old
	  kexec-tools can't load relocatable bzImage file.
	- Also add kdump on ia64 specific details.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11 18:18:20 -08:00
Paolo Ornati 670e9f34ee Documentation: remove duplicated words
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:57:56 +02:00
David Wilder dc851a0fd2 [PATCH] Updated kdump documentation
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:08 -07:00
Maneesh Soni a7e670d828 [PATCH] Kdump documentation update
Update the kdump documentation to reflect the changes due to recent kernel
config option changes for kexec and kdump.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:29 -08:00
Vivek Goyal 64ccd0cfa1 [PATCH] More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txt
Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel,
as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules.

Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Vivek Goyal 952b649272 [PATCH] Kdump: Documentation Update
There are minor changes in command line options in kexec-tools for kdump.
This patch updates the documentation to reflect those changes.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:43 -07:00
Vivek Goyal d58831e416 [PATCH] kdump documentation update to introduce use of irqpoll
o Specify "irqpoll" command line option which loading second kernel. This
  helps in reducing driver initialization failures in second kernel due
  to shared interrupts.
o Enabled LAPIC/IOAPIC support for UP kernels in second kernel. This reduces
  the chances of devices sharing the irq and hence reduces the chances of
  driver initialization failures in second kernel.
o Build a UP capture kernel and disabled SMP support.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:52 -07:00
Vivek Goyal b089f4a68e [PATCH] kdump: Documentation for Kdump
This patch contains the documentation for the kexec based crash dump tool.

Quick kdump-howto
================================================================

1) Download and build kexec-tools.

2) Download and build the latest kexec/kdump (-mm) kernel patchset.
   Two kernels need to be built in order to get this feature working.

  A) First kernel:
   a) Enable "kexec system call" feature:
	CONFIG_KEXEC=y
   b) Physical load address (use default):
	CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
   c) Enable "sysfs file system support":
	CONFIG_SYSFS=y
   d) Boot into first kernel with the command line parameter "crashkernel=Y@X":
      For example: "crashkernel=64M@16M".

  B) Second kernel:
   a) Enable "kernel crash dumps" feature:
	CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
   b) Physical load addreess, use same load address as X in "crashkernel"
      kernel parameter in d) above, e.g., 16 MB or 0x1000000.
	CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
   c) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" (Optional, in Pseudo filesystems).
	CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y

3) Boot into the first kernel.

4) Load the second kernel to be booted using:

   kexec -p <second-kernel> --crash-dump --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev>
   maxcpus=1 init 1"

5) System reboots into the second kernel when a panic occurs. A module can be
   written to force the panic, for testing purposes.

6) See Documentation/kdump.txt for how to read the first kernel's
   memory image and how to analyze it.

Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:52 -07:00