Documentation/kernel-parameters: clarify panic options
PATCH 1/1 Documentation/kernel-parameters: clarify panic options
From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
--- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +7 -5
@@ -1832,15 +1832,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes 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 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 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
Quoted 6 lines · Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Makes sense to me.
Reviewed-by Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
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