[PATCH 1/1] On Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt, section Boot into System Kernel: On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M at 16M", but some OSes like ubuntu 12.10 use ram fs larger than 64M, so in these cases the memory reserved for crashkernel should be at least 128M.

Zhouyi Zhou zhouzhouyi at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 06:50:10 EDT 2013


From: root <root at zzy-Lenovo.(none)>


Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou at ict.ac.cn>
---
 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 13f1aa0..1e850e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -290,7 +290,9 @@ Boot into System Kernel
    "crashkernel=64M at 16M" tells the system kernel to reserve 64 MB of memory
    starting at physical address 0x01000000 (16MB) for the dump-capture kernel.
 
-   On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M at 16M".
+   On x86 and x86_64, use "crashkernel=64M at 16M" (some OSes use init ram fs larger
+than 64M, for example ubuntu-12.10, use crashkernel=128M at 16M instead, or dump-capture
+kernel will out of memory).
 
    On ppc64, use "crashkernel=128M at 32M".
 
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1.7.10.4




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