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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-07-21 03:38:43 +0100 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-07-21 03:38:43 +0100 |
commit | 7a68ada6ec7d88c68057d3a4c2a517eb94289976 (patch) | |
tree | 51cd586e74fc92bfbdf382fa1544a235d908b25c /Documentation/kdump | |
parent | 760446f967678e14ee1b6464ee1bb8562f299fa6 (diff) | |
parent | 96080f697786e0a30006fcbcc5b53f350fcb3e9f (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index 615434d81108..51814450a7f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ 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 architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As - of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64 and arm architectures support relocatable - kernel. + of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64, arm and arm64 architectures support + 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 @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ For arm: For arm64: - Use vmlinux or Image -If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command +If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command to load dump-capture kernel. kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \ @@ -361,6 +361,12 @@ to load dump-capture kernel. --dtb=<dtb-for-dump-capture-kernel> \ --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>" +If you are using an uncompressed Image, then use following command +to load dump-capture kernel. + + kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-Image> \ + --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> \ + --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>" 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 |