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[PATCH v20 13/14] arm64: kdump: update a kernel doc

From: Dave Young <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-30 13:00:17
Also in: kexec

On 06/23/16 at 05:54pm, Geoff Levand wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: AKASHI Takahiro <redacted>

This patch adds arch specific descriptions about kdump usage on arm64
to kdump.txt.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <redacted>
---
 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 88ff63d..5d6da09 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ memory image to a dump file on the local disk, or across the network to
 a remote system.
 
 Kdump and kexec are currently supported on the x86, x86_64, ppc64, ia64,
-s390x and arm architectures.
+s390x, arm and arm64 architectures.
 
 When the system kernel boots, it reserves a small section of memory for
 the dump-capture kernel. This ensures that ongoing Direct Memory Access
@@ -249,6 +249,12 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, arm)
 
     AUTO_ZRELADDR=y
 
+Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, arm64)
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+1) Currently, kvm will not be enabled on the dump-capture kernel even
+   if it is configured.
+
 Extended crashkernel syntax
 ===========================
 
@@ -305,6 +311,8 @@ Boot into System Kernel
    kernel will automatically locate the crash kernel image within the
    first 512MB of RAM if X is not given.
 
+   On arm64, use "crashkernel=Y[@X]".  Note that the start address of
+   the kernel, X if explicitly specified, must be aligned to 2MiB (0x200000).
 
 Load the Dump-capture Kernel
 ============================
@@ -327,6 +335,8 @@ For s390x:
 	- Use image or bzImage
 For arm:
 	- Use zImage
+For arm64:
+	- Use vmlinux or Image
 
 If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
 to load dump-capture kernel.
@@ -370,6 +380,9 @@ For s390x:
 For arm:
 	"1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices"
 
+For arm64:
+	"1 maxcpus=1 reset_devices"
+
 Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
 
 * By default, the ELF headers are stored in ELF64 format to support
Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Dave Young <redacted>

Thanks
Dave
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