Documentation: kdump: Remind user of nr_cpus

[linux-2.6-block.git] / Documentation / kdump / kdump.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 88ff63d5fde3c63663a6b0f0e5e9a845c550060a..f7ef34065d540979ce04d2b425db07847971a434 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -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