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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst index 5762e7477a..5376890adb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst +++ 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 |