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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2006-01-09 20:51:47 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-10 08:01:27 -0800
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[PATCH] kdump: x86_64: add elfcorehdr command line option
- elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the crashed kernel. This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools to capture kernel. Changes in this version : - Added more comments in kernel-parameters.txt and in code. Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -475,10 +475,11 @@ running once the system is up.
See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and
Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
- elfcorehdr= [IA-32]
+ elfcorehdr= [IA-32, X86_64]
Specifies physical address of start of kernel core
- image elf header.
- See Documentation/kdump.txt for details.
+ image elf header. Generally kexec loader will
+ pass this option to capture kernel.
+ See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for details.
enforcing [SELINUX] Set initial enforcing status.
Format: {"0" | "1"}