[3/3] powerpc/fadump: add support for fadump_nr_cpus= parameter

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Sat May 7 14:12:46 AEST 2016


On Fri, 2016-06-05 at 11:51:08 UTC, Hari Bathini wrote:
> Kernel parameter 'nr_cpus' can be used to limit the maximum number
> of processors that an SMP kernel could support. This patch extends
> this to fadump by introducing 'fadump_nr_cpus' parameter that can
> help in booting fadump kernel on a lower memory footprint.

Is there really no other way to do this? I really hate adding new, single use
only command line parameters.

cheers


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