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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:48 -0700
commitdc009d92435f99498cbc579ce76bf28e837e2c14 (patch)
tree2ba8732b28225593d996b8faa079dc6ab4bbc9bc /Documentation
parentd0537508a9921efced238b20967e50e519ac34af (diff)
[PATCH] kexec: add kexec syscalls
This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls. Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is relatively clean. In addition the hopefully architecture independent option crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented. It's purpose is to reserve space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be setup to access. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 86db43fd6b0..560ff5ae3fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -358,6 +358,10 @@ running once the system is up.
cpia_pp= [HW,PPT]
Format: { parport<nr> | auto | none }
+ crashkernel=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
+ [KNL] Reserve a chunk of physical memory to
+ hold a kernel to switch to with kexec on panic.
+
cs4232= [HW,OSS]
Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>,<mpuio>,<mpuirq>