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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig index d849c68..554ce3f 100644 --- a/arch/i386/Kconfig +++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig @@ -645,17 +645,6 @@ config SECCOMP source kernel/Kconfig.hz -config PHYSICAL_START - hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if EMBEDDED - default "0x100000" - help - This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. - Primarily used in the case of kexec on panic where the - fail safe kernel needs to run at a different address than - the panic-ed kernel. - - Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. - config KEXEC bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL @@ -675,11 +664,31 @@ config KEXEC 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. + +config PHYSICAL_START + hex "Physical address where the kernel is loaded" if (EMBEDDED || CRASH_DUMP) + + default "0x1000000" if CRASH_DUMP + default "0x100000" + help + This gives the physical address where the kernel is loaded. Normally + for regular kernels this value is 0x100000 (1MB). But in the case + of kexec on panic the fail safe kernel needs to run at a different + address than the panic-ed kernel. This option is used to set the load + address for kernels used to capture crash dump on being kexec'ed + after panic. The default value for crash dump kernels is + 0x1000000 (16MB). This can also be set based on the "X" value as + specified in the "crashkernel=YM@XM" command line boot parameter + passed to the panic-ed kernel. Typically this parameter is set as + crashkernel=64M@16M. Please take a look at + Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for more details about crash dumps. + + Don't change this unless you know what you are doing. + endmenu |