[RFC/PATCH 9/17][Kdump] Kconfig for kdump

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 08:48:37 EST





o config option CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
o Made it dependent on HIGHMEM. This is required as capture kernel treats the
previous kernel's memory as high memmory and stitches a PTE for accessing
it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-1M-root/arch/i386/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN arch/i386/Kconfig~crashdump-x86-kconfig arch/i386/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-1M/arch/i386/Kconfig~crashdump-x86-kconfig 2005-03-27 18:35:43.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.12-rc1-mm3-1M-root/arch/i386/Kconfig 2005-03-27 18:35:43.000000000 +0530
@@ -955,6 +955,13 @@ config KEXEC
support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.

+config CRASH_DUMP
+ bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on EMBEDDED
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on HIGHMEM
+ help
+ Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
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