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Message-ID: <20080624133355.GA10512@hack.voiplan.pt>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:33:55 +0100
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>,
Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ibm.com>
Subject: [Patch] Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt: fix some words
This is a trivial patch that only fixes mistakes in
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@...ux.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@...ibm.com>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index b8e52c0..0ffa90c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -108,15 +108,15 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
- only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As
- of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel.
+ only for the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As
+ of today i386 and ia64 architectures support a relocatable kernel.
Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that
one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But
at the same time one might want to build a custom dump capture kernel
suitable to his needs.
-Following are the configuration setting required for system and
+Following are the configuration settings required for system and
dump-capture kernels for enabling kdump support.
System kernel config options
@@ -299,14 +299,14 @@ For ia64:
- Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz
-If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command
+If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use the following command
to load dump-capture kernel.
kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \
--initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> --args-linux \
--append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>"
-If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use following command
+If you are using a compressed bzImage/vmlinuz, then use the following command
to load dump-capture kernel.
kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-bzImage> \
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ to load dump-capture kernel.
Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64.
It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now
-it should be omitted
+it should be omitted.
Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while
loading dump-capture kernel.
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
* Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user
mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3".
-* We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
+* We generally don't 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.
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