Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland...

[linux-2.6] / Documentation / kdump / kdump.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index d0ac72cc19ff8e29667e7a2c58e21d2d0cfafcb5..b8e52c0355d3bab81760adbf62d0c8a06a9ba52a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ The syntax is:
     crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
     range=start-[end]
 
     crashkernel=<range1>:<size1>[,<range2>:<size2>,...][@offset]
     range=start-[end]
 

+    'start' is inclusive and 'end' is exclusive.
+

 For example:
 
     crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
 For example:
 
     crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M


@@ -253,10 +255,11 @@ This would mean:
 
     1) if the RAM is smaller than 512M, then don't reserve anything
        (this is the "rescue" case)
 
     1) if the RAM is smaller than 512M, then don't reserve anything
        (this is the "rescue" case)

-    2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G, then reserve 64M
+    2) if the RAM size is between 512M and 2G (exclusive), then reserve 64M

     3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
 
 
     3) if the RAM size is larger than 2G, then reserve 128M
 
 

+

 Boot into System Kernel
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 Boot into System Kernel
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