[PATCH v4 2/2] Documentation: kdump: add description of enable multi-cpus support

From: Zhou Wenjian
Date: Tue Aug 02 2016 - 22:33:53 EST


multi-cpus support is useful to improve the performance of kdump in
some cases. So add the description of enable multi-cpus support in
dump-capture kernel.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index b474060..028cf26 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -396,6 +396,13 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
Note, though maxcpus always works, we should replace it by nr_cpus to
save memory if supported by the current ARCH, such as x86.

+* We should enable multi-cpus support in dump-capture kernel if we intend
+ to use multi-threads programs with it, such as parallel dump feature of
+ makedumpfile. Otherwise, the multi-threads program may have a great
+ performance degradation. To enable multi-cpus support, we should bring up
+ a SMP dump-capture kernel and specify maxcpus\nr_cpus, disable_cpu_apic=[X]
+ options while loading it.
+
* For s390x there are two kdump modes: If a ELF header is specified with
the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter, it is used by the kdump kernel as it
is done on all other architectures. If no elfcorehdr= kernel parameter is
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