[PATCH 2/2] Documentation: kdump: clean up the outdated description
Baoquan He
bhe at redhat.com
Fri Mar 29 06:28:25 PDT 2024
After commit 443cbaf9e2fd ("crash: split vmcoreinfo exporting code out
from crash_core.c"), Kconfig item CRASH_CORE has gone away in kernel.
Items VMCORE_INFO and CRASH_RESERVE are used instead.
So clean up the outdated description about CRASH_CORE and update it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: corbet at lwn.net
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
index 0302a93b1d40..5376890adbeb 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
@@ -136,10 +136,6 @@ System kernel config options
CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE=y
- Subsequently, CRASH_CORE is selected by KEXEC_CORE::
-
- CONFIG_CRASH_CORE=y
-
2) Enable "sysfs file system support" in "Filesystem" -> "Pseudo
filesystems." This is usually enabled by default::
@@ -168,6 +164,10 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Independent)
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
+ And this will select VMCORE_INFO and CRASH_RESERVE::
+ CONFIG_VMCORE_INFO=y
+ CONFIG_CRASH_RESERVE=y
+
2) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" under "Filesystems" -> "Pseudo filesystems"::
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
--
2.41.0
More information about the kexec
mailing list