[PATCH v3 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Sun Aug 7 19:14:51 PDT 2016


On 08/03/16 at 08:59am, Zhou Wenjian wrote:
> v2->v3: add description of nr_cpus.
> v1->v2: change nr_cpus to maxcpus
> 
> nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> index 88ff63d..4aa194e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> @@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
>  * We generally don' 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.
> +  Note, though maxcpus always works, we should replace it by nr_cpus to
> +  save memory if supported by the current ARCH, such as x86. 

Can you replace "we" with "you" in both these patches?

Thanks
Dave



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