Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756171AbYFXNh3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:37:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753035AbYFXNhO (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:37:14 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]:17922 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753758AbYFXNhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:37:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:user-agent; b=tMwmlCbRjZqcFEBtVbbDM+qeU4mmYF3/zxQJpyBXok2K1FTfA2Cvxnsmc2xcOy+dnb l+j1eq2AisxRkFiZPJXbMI+6iRxjHMHSU/j1YGt49P//4ewZ5zFlbULVD3S2jFi7id3u w0bhZtjJDPLMmCNTn/CWlVO5rU+s/soG5oPp0= Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:55 +0100 From: WANG Cong To: LKML Cc: Randy Dunlap , Vivek Goyal , Maneesh Soni Subject: [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words Message-ID: <20080624133355.GA10512@hack.voiplan.pt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3108 Lines: 73 This is a trivial patch that only fixes mistakes in Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Maneesh Soni --- diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index b8e52c0..0ffa90c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -108,15 +108,15 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump. 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible - only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As - of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel. + only for the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As + of today i386 and ia64 architectures support a relocatable kernel. Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But at the same time one might want to build a custom dump capture kernel suitable to his needs. -Following are the configuration setting required for system and +Following are the configuration settings required for system and dump-capture kernels for enabling kdump support. System kernel config options @@ -299,14 +299,14 @@ For ia64: - Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz -If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command +If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use the following command to load dump-capture kernel. kexec -p \ --initrd= --args-linux \ --append="root= " -If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use following command +If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use the following command to load dump-capture kernel. kexec -p \ @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ to load dump-capture kernel. Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64. It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now -it should be omitted +it should be omitted. Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while loading dump-capture kernel. @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel: * Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3". -* We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the +* We generally don't have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/