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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst
index 5762e7477a..5376890adb 100644
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+++ 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
@@ -191,9 +191,7 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, i386 and x86_64)
CPU is enough for kdump kernel to dump vmcore on most of systems.
However, you can also specify nr_cpus=X to enable multiple processors
- in kdump kernel. In this case, "disable_cpu_apicid=" is needed to
- tell kdump kernel which cpu is 1st kernel's BSP. Please refer to
- admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for more details.
+ in kdump kernel.
With CONFIG_SMP=n, the above things are not related.
@@ -454,8 +452,7 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
to use multi-thread programs with it, such as parallel dump feature of
makedumpfile. Otherwise, the multi-thread program may have a great
performance degradation. To enable multi-cpu support, you should bring up an
- SMP dump-capture kernel and specify maxcpus/nr_cpus, disable_cpu_apicid=[X]
- options while loading it.
+ SMP dump-capture kernel and specify maxcpus/nr_cpus options while loading it.
* For s390x there are two kdump modes: If a ELF header is specified with
the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter, it is used by the kdump kernel as it