From 3ce62385019fbf7d2aea4fd7c73fbd0ddad5c8fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 17:54:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Improve softlockup_panic= description text It should say what that <integer> range is and what that integer value means. I had to look at the code... Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> [jc: changed non-null to nonzero] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index fcaa8558ed7ea..f02961bda6f4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3885,6 +3885,12 @@ [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. Format: <integer> + A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector + to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This + is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC + which is the respective build-time switch to that + functionality. + softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate backtraces on all cpus. -- GitLab