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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 13 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index bc4bd5a44b88..88ff63d5fde3 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -263,12 +263,6 @@ The syntax is: crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset] range=start-[end] -Please note, on arm, the offset is required. - crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...]@offset - range=start-[end] - - 'start' is inclusive and 'end' is exclusive. - For example: crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M @@ -307,10 +301,9 @@ Boot into System Kernel on the memory consumption of the kdump system. In general this is not dependent on the memory size of the production system. - On arm, use "crashkernel=Y@X". Note that the start address of the kernel - will be aligned to 128MiB (0x08000000), so if the start address is not then - any space below the alignment point may be overwritten by the dump-capture kernel, - which means it is possible that the vmcore is not that precise as expected. + On arm, the use of "crashkernel=Y@X" is no longer necessary; the + kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the + first 512MB of RAM if X is not given. Load the Dump-capture Kernel |