[PATCH 8/8] pseries: phyp dump: config file

Manish Ahuja ahuja at austin.ibm.com
Sat Mar 22 10:50:50 EST 2008


Add hypervisor-assisted dump to kernel config

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja at us.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Index: 2.6.25-rc1/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- 2.6.25-rc1.orig/arch/powerpc/Kconfig	2008-03-20 20:53:33.000000000 -0500
+++ 2.6.25-rc1/arch/powerpc/Kconfig	2008-03-20 21:06:29.000000000 -0500
@@ -306,6 +306,16 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
 
 	  Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
 
+config PHYP_DUMP
+	bool "Hypervisor-assisted dump (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on PPC_PSERIES && EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+	  Hypervisor-assisted dump is meant to be a kdump replacement
+	  offering robustness and speed not possible without system
+	  hypervisor assistence.
+
+	  If unsure, say "N"
+
 config PPCBUG_NVRAM
 	bool "Enable reading PPCBUG NVRAM during boot" if PPLUS || LOPEC
 	default y if PPC_PREP



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