Merge tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client

[cascardo/linux.git] / Documentation / kdump / kdump.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index f7ef340..b0eb27b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -396,6 +396,13 @@ Notes on loading the 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.
 
+* You should enable multi-cpu support in dump-capture kernel if you intend
+  to use multi-thread programs with it, such as parallel dump feature of
+  makedumpfile. Otherwise, the multi-thread program may have a great
+  performance degradation. To enable multi-cpu support, you should bring up an
+  SMP dump-capture kernel and specify maxcpus/nr_cpus, disable_cpu_apicid=[X]
+  options while loading it.
+
 * 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
   is done on all other architectures. If no elfcorehdr= kernel parameter is