Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756762AbYFXXTf (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:19:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753146AbYFXXT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:19:27 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:44624 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753100AbYFXXT0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:19:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:19:25 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: WANG Cong Cc: LKML , Randy Dunlap , Vivek Goyal , Maneesh Soni Subject: Re: [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words Message-Id: <20080624161925.422c1929.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20080624133355.GA10512@hack.voiplan.pt> References: <20080624133355.GA10512@hack.voiplan.pt> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3470 Lines: 87 On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:55 +0100 WANG Cong wrote: > > This is a trivial patch that only fixes mistakes in > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. > > Signed-off-by: WANG Cong > Cc: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Thanks. > 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. > > --- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ -- 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/