[PATCH makedumpfile 2/2] Add help and manual messages about LZO compression support

HATAYAMA Daisuke d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com
Mon Feb 20 04:10:10 EST 2012


Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com>
---

 makedumpfile.8 |    6 +++---
 print_info.c   |   16 ++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/makedumpfile.8 b/makedumpfile.8
index 4733420..f607bf5 100644
--- a/makedumpfile.8
+++ b/makedumpfile.8
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ configuration, you need to use --diskset option.
 .SH OPTIONS
 
 .TP
-\fB\-c\fR
-Compress dump data by each page.
+\fB\-c,\-l\fR
+Compress dump data by each page using zlib for -c option or lzo for -l option.
 .br
 A user cannot specify this option with \-E option, because the ELF format does
 not support compressed data.
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ by dump_level 11, makedumpfile retries it by dump_level 31.
 \fB\-E\fR
 Create \fIDUMPFILE\fR in the ELF format.
 .br
-This option cannot be specified with \-c option, because the ELF format does not
+This option cannot be specified with either of \-c option or \-l option, because the ELF format does not
 support compressed data.
 .br
 .B Example:
diff --git a/print_info.c b/print_info.c
index 31460b7..237892e 100644
--- a/print_info.c
+++ b/print_info.c
@@ -35,15 +35,15 @@ print_usage(void)
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("Usage:\n");
 	MSG("  Creating DUMPFILE:\n");
-	MSG("  # makedumpfile    [-c|-E] [-d DL] [-x VMLINUX|-i VMCOREINFO] VMCORE DUMPFILE\n");
+	MSG("  # makedumpfile    [-c|-l|-E] [-d DL] [-x VMLINUX|-i VMCOREINFO] VMCORE DUMPFILE\n");
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("  Creating DUMPFILE with filtered kernel data specified through filter config\n");
 	MSG("  file:\n");
-	MSG("  # makedumpfile    [-c|-E] [-d DL] -x VMLINUX --config FILTERCONFIGFILE VMCORE\n");
+	MSG("  # makedumpfile    [-c|-l|-E] [-d DL] -x VMLINUX --config FILTERCONFIGFILE VMCORE\n");
 	MSG("    DUMPFILE\n");
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("  Outputting the dump data in the flattened format to the standard output:\n");
-	MSG("  # makedumpfile -F [-c|-E] [-d DL] [-x VMLINUX|-i VMCOREINFO] VMCORE\n");
+	MSG("  # makedumpfile -F [-c|-l|-E] [-d DL] [-x VMLINUX|-i VMCOREINFO] VMCORE\n");
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("  Rearranging the dump data in the flattened format to a readable DUMPFILE:\n");
 	MSG("  # makedumpfile -R DUMPFILE\n");
@@ -70,14 +70,14 @@ print_usage(void)
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("  Creating DUMPFILE from multiple VMCOREs generated on sadump diskset configuration:\n");
-	MSG("  # makedumpfile [-c] [-d DL] -x VMLINUX --diskset=VMCORE1 --diskset=VMCORE2\n");
+	MSG("  # makedumpfile [-c|-l] [-d DL] -x VMLINUX --diskset=VMCORE1 --diskset=VMCORE2\n");
 	MSG("    [--diskset=VMCORE3 ..] DUMPFILE\n");
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("Available options:\n");
-	MSG("  [-c]:\n");
-	MSG("      Compress dump data by each page.\n");
-	MSG("      A user cannot specify this option with -E option, because the ELF format\n");
+	MSG("  [-c|-l]:\n");
+	MSG("      Compress dump data by each page using zlib for -c option and lzo for -l option.\n");
+	MSG("      A user cannot specify either of these options with -E option, because the ELF format\n");
 	MSG("      does not support compressed data.\n");
 	MSG("      THIS IS ONLY FOR THE CRASH UTILITY.\n");
 	MSG("\n");
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ print_usage(void)
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("  [-E]:\n");
 	MSG("      Create DUMPFILE in the ELF format.\n");
-	MSG("      This option cannot be specified with -c option, because the ELF\n");
+	MSG("      This option cannot be specified with either of -c option or -l option, because the ELF\n");
 	MSG("      format does not support compressed data.\n");
 	MSG("\n");
 	MSG("  [-x VMLINUX]:\n");




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