Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-26 Thread Baoquan He
On 08/26/16 at 08:45am, "Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑" wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > Sorry, I misunderstood it before. > Thanks for your detailed explanation. > > Hi Jon and Baoquan, I'm confused about how to adjust the kdump.txt. > Does the patch set v9 still OK? Yeah, I think it's OK. Let's wait for Jon's

Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-26 Thread Baoquan He
On 08/25/16 at 01:10pm, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:06:45 +0800 > Baoquan He wrote: > > > Hi Jon, do you think change as below is OK to you? > > So nr_cpus is the maximum value, and maxcpus is the current number. > Figures. No wonder the documentation is

Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:06:45 +0800 Baoquan He wrote: > Hi Jon, do you think change as below is OK to you? So nr_cpus is the maximum value, and maxcpus is the current number. Figures. No wonder the documentation is confusing... Anyway, this is much more along the lines of what

Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-23 Thread Baoquan He
On 08/22/16 at 09:14am, "Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑" wrote: > On 08/19/2016 11:57 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:33:21 +0800 > >"Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑" wrote: > > > >>I was also confused by maxcpus and nr_cpus before writing this patch. > >>I think it is a

Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-21 Thread Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑
On 08/19/2016 11:57 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:33:21 +0800 "Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑" wrote: I was also confused by maxcpus and nr_cpus before writing this patch. I think it is a good choice to describe it in kernel-parameters.txt. Then, only two

Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-18 Thread Zhou, Wenjian/周文剑
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your reply. On 08/19/2016 01:18 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:11:46 +0800 Zhou Wenjian wrote: Thank you for working to improve the documentation! * We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the

[PATCH v9 1/2] Documentation: kdump: remind user of nr_cpus

2016-08-17 Thread Zhou Wenjian
nr_cpus can help to save memory. So we should remind user of it. Signed-off-by: Zhou Wenjian Acked-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Xunlei Pang --- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git