linux-kernel - [PATCH v10 RESEND 2/3] Documentation: kdump: Remind user of nr

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Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:59:48 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     corbet@....net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xlpang@...hat.com, dyoung@...hat.com,
        Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: [PATCH v10 RESEND 2/3] Documentation: kdump: Remind user of nr_cpus

From: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@...fujitsu.com>

nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@...hat.com>
---
 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 88ff63d..f7ef340 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
 * We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
   dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture
   kernel or specify maxcpus=1 option while loading dump-capture kernel.
+  Note, though maxcpus always works, you had better replace it with
+  nr_cpus to save memory if supported by the current ARCH, such as x86.
 
 * 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
-- 
2.5.5