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[PATCH] kdump: Kconfig

- config option CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP

- Made it dependent on HIGHMEM.  This is required as capture kernel treats
  the previous kernel's memory as high memmory and stitches a PTE for
  accessing it.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vivek Goyal 20 years ago
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@@ -970,6 +970,13 @@ config KEXEC
 	  support.  As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
 	  support.  As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
 	  strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
 	  strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
 
 
+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.
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