Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:19:25 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words |
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:55 +0100 WANG Cong wrote:
> > This is a trivial patch that only fixes mistakes in > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. > > Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org> > Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Thanks.
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> > Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> > > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > index b8e52c0..0ffa90c 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > @@ -108,15 +108,15 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump. > > 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is > no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible > - only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As > - of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel. > + only for the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As > + of today i386 and ia64 architectures support a relocatable kernel. > > Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that > one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But > at the same time one might want to build a custom dump capture kernel > suitable to his needs. > > -Following are the configuration setting required for system and > +Following are the configuration settings required for system and > dump-capture kernels for enabling kdump support. > > System kernel config options > @@ -299,14 +299,14 @@ For ia64: > - Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz > > > -If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command > +If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use the following command > to load dump-capture kernel. > > kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \ > --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> --args-linux \ > --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>" > > -If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use following command > +If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use the following command > to load dump-capture kernel. > > kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-bzImage> \ > @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ to load dump-capture kernel. > > Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64. > It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now > -it should be omitted > +it should be omitted. > > Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while > loading dump-capture kernel. > @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel: > * Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user > mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3". > > -* We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the > +* We generally don't have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the > dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture > kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel. > >
--- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/
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