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| author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2011-04-04 15:02:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-04-04 17:51:47 -0700 |
| commit | 44a4dcf75c58157a5d036ff783dfb2254703b93e (patch) | |
| tree | c19ee506ff5067a2d22f5273853d892dcc1ec2af | |
| parent | 41c57892a2895865afc89ff1a21f91a0f1506f66 (diff) | |
Documentation: update panic parameter info
Add a little more info for some of the panic-related kernel parameters.
Fix "oops=panic" to fit in 80 columns.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index c357a31411cd..f2e5f3f72c8d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1832,15 +1832,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the CPU specific event set. - oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process, - but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine. + oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the + process, but there is a small probability of + deadlocking the machine. This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions. Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot. OSS [HW,OSS] See Documentation/sound/oss/oss-parameters.txt - panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic + panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> + seconds before rebooting Format: <timeout> parkbd.port= [HW] Parallel port number the keyboard adapter is @@ -2343,6 +2345,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. softlockup_panic= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. + Format: <integer> sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver See Documentation/sonypi.txt @@ -2529,8 +2532,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. reported either. unknown_nmi_panic - [X86] - Set unknown_nmi_panic=1 early on boot. + [X86] Cause panic on unknown NMI. usbcore.autosuspend= [USB] The autosuspend time delay (in seconds) used |