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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2007-10-16 23:31:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:43:06 -0700
commitf00b51654ec919620aec911b4c3fa4ef3952bb6d (patch)
treeb7987d30e0cd7beaf9d7d9f114fe2c899563cb87 /arch/i386
parent8bc9d4227f056f8ff435910b5582d0ec3243848e (diff)
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 <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/Kconfig17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
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"