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Documentation: kdump: Remind user of nr_cpus 

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

Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian <zhouwj-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Zhou Wenjian 2016-09-19 13:59:48 +08:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -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