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authorRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>2007-10-16 23:31:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-17 08:43:06 -0700
commitf00b51654ec919620aec911b4c3fa4ef3952bb6d (patch)
treeb7987d30e0cd7beaf9d7d9f114fe2c899563cb87 /arch/x86_64
parent8bc9d4227f056f8ff435910b5582d0ec3243848e (diff)
Update help text for CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
Fix typos in CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. Use tab + 2 spaces for indentation on all lines. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/Kconfig21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
index 37f11f24a045..d681be88ae5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
@@ -582,17 +582,18 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
- Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
- This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
- which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
- a specially reserved region and then later executed after
- a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
+ Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
+ This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
+ which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
+ a specially reserved region and then later executed after
+ a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
- PHYSICAL_START.
- For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+ PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image
+ (CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
+ For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
config RELOCATABLE
- bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
Builds a relocatable kernel. This enables loading and running
@@ -603,8 +604,8 @@ config RELOCATABLE
must live at a different physical address than the primary
kernel.
- Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then kernel run from the address
- it has been loaded at and compile time physical address
+ Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address
+ it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address
(CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored.
config PHYSICAL_START