[PATCH v20 13/14] arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc

[Baoquan He]

On 06/23/16 at 05:54pm, Geoff Levand wrote:
> From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> 
> This patch adds arch specific descriptions about kdump usage on arm64
> to kdump.txt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> index 88ff63d..5d6da09 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ memory image to a dump file on the local disk, or across the network to
>  a remote system.
>  
>  Kdump and kexec are currently supported on the x86, x86_64, ppc64, ia64,
> -s390x and arm architectures.
> +s390x, arm and arm64 architectures.
>  
>  When the system kernel boots, it reserves a small section of memory for
>  the dump-capture kernel. This ensures that ongoing Direct Memory Access
> @@ -249,6 +249,12 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, arm)
>  
>      AUTO_ZRELADDR=y
>  
> +Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, arm64)
> +----------------------------------------------------------
> +
> +1) Currently, kvm will not be enabled on the dump-capture kernel even
> +   if it is configured.
> +
>  Extended crashkernel syntax
>  ===========================
>  
> @@ -305,6 +311,8 @@ Boot into System Kernel
>     kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the
>     first 512MB of RAM if X is not given.
>  
> +   On arm64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]".  Note that the start address of
				  ~ Why square brackets here, is it
different than other arch?


Except for this, it looks good to me.

Thanks
Baoquan

> +   the kernel, X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000).
>  
>  Load the Dump-capture Kernel
>  ============================
> @@ -327,6 +335,8 @@ For s390x:
>  	- Use image or bzImage
>  For arm:
>  	- Use zImage
> +For arm64:
> +	- Use vmlinux or Image
>  
>  If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
>  to load dump-capture kernel.
> @@ -370,6 +380,9 @@ For s390x:
>  For arm:
>  	"1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices"
>  
> +For arm64:
> +	"1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices"
> +
>  Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
>  
>  * By default, the ELF headers are stored in ELF64 format to support
> -- 
> 2.5.0
> 
> 
> 
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