[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Improve Kconfig description of CRASH_DUMP
Improve Kconfig description of CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP. Previously
it was too brief to be useful.
Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index c134a54..e34a4db 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -761,6 +761,13 @@
depends on HIGHMEM
help
Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
+ This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
+ which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
+ a specially reserved region and then later executed after
+ a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
+ to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
+ PHYSICAL_START.
+ For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
index 6cd4878..927b392 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -488,7 +488,14 @@
bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
- Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
+ Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
+ This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
+ which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
+ a specially reserved region and then later executed after
+ a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
+ to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
+ PHYSICAL_START.
+ For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
config PHYSICAL_START
hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP)