kexec/kdump: minor Documentation updates for arm64 and Image
authorBharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:33:24 +0000 (14:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:26:00 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
Minor updates in Documentation for arm64 as relocatable kernel.  Also
this patch updates documentation for using uncompressed image "Image"
which is used for ARM64.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495104793-6563-1-git-send-email-Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@nxp.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

index 615434d81108ed28fc4f077a0e1b35cd609b2610..51814450a7f8031d6bb13dcc32f0d137fe1f1897 100644 (file)
@@ -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