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authorVivek Goyal2005-06-25 23:58:19 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds2005-06-26 01:24:53 +0200
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parent[PATCH] kdump: Retrieve saved max pfn (diff)
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[PATCH] kdump: Kconfig
- config option CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP - Made it dependent on HIGHMEM. This is required as capture kernel treats the previous kernel's memory as high memmory and stitches a PTE for accessing it. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/Kconfig7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index 0f391cbf116e..6c02336fe2e4 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -970,6 +970,13 @@ config KEXEC
support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
+config CRASH_DUMP
+ bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EMBEDDED
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on HIGHMEM
+ help
+ Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
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