From e54def4ad8144ab15f826416e2e0f290ef1901b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:00:30 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.9.2. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst | 7 ++----- Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/kdump') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst index 5762e7477a..0302a93b1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/kdump.rst @@ -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 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst index bced9e4b6e..0f714fc945 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst @@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ Defines the beginning of the text section. In general, _stext indicates the kernel start address. Used to convert a virtual address from the direct kernel map to a physical address. -vmap_area_list --------------- +VMALLOC_START +------------- -Stores the virtual area list. makedumpfile gets the vmalloc start value -from this variable and its value is necessary for vmalloc translation. +Stores the base address of vmalloc area. makedumpfile gets this value +since is necessary for vmalloc translation. mem_map ------- -- cgit v1.2.3