[PATCH] Add a help message into man page of makedumpfile for -b option.

[Dave Young]

On 06/04/2013 03:38 PM, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:22:02 +0800
> Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/31/2013 10:26 AM, Dave Young wrote:
>>> Add Ken'ichi Ohmichi to cc list and remove redhat list from cc
>>>
>>> On 05/30/2013 04:44 PM, Jingbai Ma wrote:
>>>> This is a minor change that only adds a help message to -b option in makedumpfile man page.
>>>> This message has been in Red Hat's makedumpfile source, they would like it in upstream also.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jingbai Ma <jingbai.ma at hp.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  makedumpfile.8 |    4 ++++
>>>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/makedumpfile.8 b/makedumpfile.8
>>>> index cfd1270..1e844db 100644
>>>> --- a/makedumpfile.8
>>>> +++ b/makedumpfile.8
>>>> @@ -534,6 +534,10 @@ order from left to right.  \fIVMCORE\fRs are assembled into a single
>>>>  Print debugging message.
>>>>  
>>>>  .TP
>>>> +\fB-b <order>\fR
>>>> +cache 2^order pages in ram when generating vmcore info before writing to output
>>
>> Hi, Jingbai
>>
>> A nitpick:
>> The first character should be capital 'C'
> 
> It's basically good to me. But the position of insertion isn't
> suitable and the message isn't correct.
> Moreover, the same can be said about current print_usage().
> 
> So I'll merge this patch with change as below:
> 
> diff --git a/makedumpfile.8 b/makedumpfile.8
> index cfd1270..61bd5f2 100644
> --- a/makedumpfile.8
> +++ b/makedumpfile.8
> @@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ on the following example.
>  # makedumpfile \-\-reassemble dumpfile1 dumpfile2 dumpfile
> 
>  .TP
> +\fB\-b\fR \fI<order>\fR
> +Cache 2^order pages in ram when generating \fIDUMPFILE\fR before writing to output.
> +The default value is 4.
> +
> +.TP
>  \fB\-\-cyclic\-buffer\fR \fIbuffer_size\fR
>  Specify the buffer size in kilo bytes for analysis in the cyclic mode.
>  Actually, the double of \fIbuffer_size\fR kilo bytes will be allocated in memory.
> 
> 
> And I'll fix print_usage() too.

Great, Thanks a lot!

> 
> 
> Thanks
> Atsushi Kumagai
> 


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Thanks
Dave