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Express new ELF32 mechanisms in documentation
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This patch reflects the
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=commit;h=b9c3648e690ad0dad12389659673206213a09760
change in kexec-tools-testing also now in the kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernhard Walle authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 17, 2007
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Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:

* By default, the ELF headers are stored in ELF64 format to support
systems with more than 4GB memory. The --elf32-core-headers option can
be used to force the generation of ELF32 headers. This is necessary
because GDB currently cannot open vmcore files with ELF64 headers on
32-bit systems. ELF32 headers can be used on non-PAE systems (that is,
less than 4GB of memory).
systems with more than 4GB memory. On i386, kexec automatically checks if
the physical RAM size exceeds the 4 GB limit and if not, uses ELF32.
So, on non-PAE systems, ELF32 is always used.

The --elf32-core-headers option can be used to force the generation of ELF32
headers. This is necessary because GDB currently cannot open vmcore files
with ELF64 headers on 32-bit systems.

* The "irqpoll" boot parameter reduces driver initialization failures
due to shared interrupts in the dump-capture kernel.
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