handle kernelcore=: generic
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:03:14 +0000 (04:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:22:59 +0000 (10:22 -0700)
commited7ed365172e27b0efe9d43cc962723c7193e34e
tree6c22daf6908f92c64aae2b425e6383fe0ed404ac
parent396faf0303d273219db5d7eb4a2879ad977ed185
handle kernelcore=: generic

This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86.

Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new
sysctl.  This patch adds the necessary documentation.

From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>

  When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64
  because of an infinite loop.  In addition, the parsing code can be handled
  in an architecture-independent manner.

  This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter.  It is
  only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing
  (i.e.  define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP).  Other architectures will
  ignore the boot parameter.

[bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c
include/linux/mm.h
mm/page_alloc.c